The Antarctic Flight.
WEAK SIGNALS FROM ’PLANE. RECEPTION AT PICTON. (By Telegrapn.— Press Association). WELLINGTON, Nov. 28. The Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department advises that HALS. Dunedin, in Picton Harbour, reports having heard radio signals from the missing EllsAVorth expedition aeroplane, Polar Star, at 12.20 this morning. The signals Avere very weak and unreadable, but the call, “Elmir” was heard several times. The ’plane appeared to be giving the figures relating to its position continuously. A Avateh is still being maintained bv the New Zealand land stations.
(No Avireless communication had been received from the ’plane since 4.5 p.m. on Saturday, about 14 hours after the departure of Messrs. Lincoln Ellsworth and Kenyon on their attempt to fly across Antarctica).
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19572, 28 November 1935, Page 3
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