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STORY FROM NEWFOUNDLAND POLICE SERGEANT'S DENIAL (Received September 25, 5.5 p.m.) MONTREAL, Sept. 21 A message from Curling, Newfoundland, yesterday stated that there was a possibility that traces of the French airmen, Nungessor and Coli, -who were lost on May 19, 1927, on an attempted transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, had been found on Blomidon Mountain, Bay of Islands, 20 miles from there. This belief was aroused by persistent rumours that two skeletons and the remains of an aeroplane had been found on the mountain.
It is recalled that on the day when the airmen were lost, a light similar to that from an explosion was seen in the vicinity of Mount Blomidon by residents of the Bay of Islands. This was not investigated at the time.
Police-Sergeant Lee, of Curling, was asked if he could confirm the report of the finding of these traces of Nungessor and Coli, but ho declared there was no truth in it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21297, 26 September 1932, Page 9
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