NO TRACE OF LANCASTER

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 227, 24 April 1933, Page 5

NO TRACE OF LANCASTER

I Planes' Long Search SCORES OF NATIVES QUESTIONED Mrs. Bonney Missing Press AssnHition —Cnnvright London, Anvil 22.—Th* TransSaharipnne Company. of Paris. reports that no sign has been seen of j Captain W. N. Lancaster, though planes j searched for miles along his supposed j route between Reggan and Gao en route ! from England to Capetown. Scores of ! caravan drivers, natives and desert I tribesmen have been questioned. It is ! believed that Lancaster was a long way | off his course. The search is being con- ! tinued. No news has been received of Mrs. ! Hilda Bonney. who is flying from AusI tralia to England, since she passed over ! Alorstar en route to Rangoon, states a ! Singapore message. She should have I arrived at Victoria Point on Thursday | afternoon and at Singapore yesterday. j No reason is known for her non-appear-j ance, though the weather lately has not ! been the best for flying owing to the api proach of the monsoon season. A Royal Air Force machine left to ! search for Mrs. Bonney. Before' leavj in.; she said that if she was missing the J foreshore should be searched as she had j a small collapsible boat. | There is no trace of the Italian, Cap- | tain Robbiano, despite a vigorous search ; of the coast east of Bengal, a Calcutta j message slates. The wreckage of a plane • was found bearing Italian marks with a j notebook containing details of landing ! grounds en route to Australia. Vil- • lagers on the south-west of Sandwip h- ' land, near Noakhali, report having heard ! a loud explosion off the coast in the I early hours of the morning of April 15, j suggesting that Robbiano crashed in the [ darkness while flying towards the coast I of Burma.

Captain Lancaster, who flew to Australia with Mrs. Keith Miller, was acquitted of the murder of another airman, Haydn Clarke, at Miami last year. He had hoped to reach Oram from London, in one hop, and then to cross 400 in:les of sea off tha Cameroons to break the record. JAPANESE PLANES CRASH Press Association.—Copyright. Tokio, April 22.—A naval plane proceeding to Formosa yesterday fell into the sea near Looelioos. Another when practising plunged into Tokio Bay. Both crows were drowned.

Miss Jean Batten RETURN TO ENGLAND Press Association—Copyright Calcutta, April 22.—Miss Jean Batten, who is under doctor's orders, remained in her room at Karachi from Monday to Wednesday, seeing no one. She slipped away quietly on Wednesday night by steamer for England. She intends, if she can get another machine, to make another attempt on the England to Australia record.