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MANY AEROPLANES PARTICIPATE. AID OF FRENCH GOVERNMENT. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.' Rec. 5.5 p.m. Algiers, Jan. 19. Fears are entertained for the safety of Lady Bailey, who has been missing since Sunday night when she left Oran, on a further stage of her attempted record flight to Capetown. She had fuel sufficient for 17 hours’ flying. -i The French Government has given an assurance that everything possible is being done, and. a thorough search of the desert by French military machines has been ordered. Extensive preparations for the search provide for four military aeroplanes to leave from Oran, two from Colombbechar and four from Gao at dawn, Aided by civil aeroplanes they will explore the entire district and wireless the result .to Algiers. Captain Barnard left London at dawn for Oran to participate in the search. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail says the tranp-Saharan Company’s wireless posts at Gao and Reggan report no trace of Lady Bailey, and it is feared she has been forced down in the Tanezrouft, a dreaded desert of thirst in 'the middle of the Sahara, 1000 miles south of Oran. Lady Bailey had no water supply. ‘ '
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1933, Page 7
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