DEATH OF EXPLORER
AIR COUNCIL’S SYMPATHY
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 25. Colonel H. S. Watkins has received the following message from Lord Londonderry (Secretary for Air): —“ On behalf of the Air Council I offer my deepest sympathy on the death of your son as a result of an accident in Greenland. I greatly deplore his loss.” NO EXPLANATION OF FATE. LONDON, August 26. (Received August 26, at 9 p.m.) There is no further explanation of Watkins’s fate. It is supposed' that after losing his canoe he left his heavy trousers on the icefloe and endeavoured to reach the mainland by swimming.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21734, 27 August 1932, Page 11
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102DEATH OF EXPLORER Otago Daily Times, Issue 21734, 27 August 1932, Page 11
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