FAKE DISTRESS SIGNAL
There are always to be found people with a strange sense of humour who indulge in what they are pleased to call practical jokes without thinking of what the possible consequences of their actions may be. When an explorer is lost, such “jokers” launch faked messages in bottles, and doubtless crack their sides with laughing when these are picked up. They don t consider the pain that they must cause to people whose hopes are raised by the false messages, onlv to be shattered a little later when 'the hoax is discovered. The other dav an amateur received six seDaratp times S.O.S. calls which purported to emanate frem Mr. Bert Hassell and “ r : P* ke .r Cramer, the airmen who L e il° ntar , io lor Greenland, and have been missing since August 18 The
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 546, 26 December 1928, Page 14
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138FAKE DISTRESS SIGNAL Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 546, 26 December 1928, Page 14
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