AIRMEN REPORTED SAFE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 636, 12 April 1929, Page 1

AIRMEN REPORTED SAFE

Southern Cross Found

DISCOVERY BY PILOT OF CANBERRA

(United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian end X.Z. Press Association) Reed. 3.0 p.m. SYDNEY, To-day. THE air liner Canberra reports that the Southern Cross has been found. The crew are safe.

'V'O details are given as to where the missing plane was found, after being lost in the wilds for nearly a fortnight. The pilot of the Canberra. Captain L. Holden, spent the day yesterday overhauling the T)Tg machine at Wyndham, ready to take up the search again this morning.

NO NEWS OF ANDERSON ON WAY TO WYNDHAM LOST IN DESOLATE COUNTRY (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) SYDNEY, Thursday. At a late hour to-night nothing had been heard at Wyndham o£ Lieutenant Keith Anderson, who left Alice Springs yesterday in his Westland monoplane on the 700-mile hop to Wyndham. In a wireless message from Sydney picked up at Invercargill, and transmitted by the Press Association, it was stated that the country in which Lieutenant Anderson is now believed to be lost Is even more desolate than the Kimberley district where the Southern Cross is supposed to have descended. NEW ZEALAND’S MESSAGE APPRECIATION BY AUSTRALIA Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. Sir Joseph Ward to-day announced he had received the following cable-

?ram from Mr. S. M. Bruce: —“Your ablegram conccrniug SquadronLeader Kingsford Smith and his fel-low-aviators in the missing Southern Cross has been published here and was received with the keenest appreciation by the people of Australia/' FORTNIGHT IN THE WILDS