HOPE OF FINDING LOST SOUTHERN CLOUD IS GONE.
“No Longer Reason To Believe Pilots And Passengers Are Alive.” (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph*—Copyright.) (Received April 1, 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, April 1. “ From the evidence before me I have reluctantly concluded that there is no longer any reason to believe that the pilots and the passengers of the missing Southern Cloud are alive,” stated the Minister for Defence, Mr C.hißey. " Early action wilt be taken by the Air Accidents Investigation Committee to investigate the circumstances in which the catastrophe occurred. The committee will hold its meeting in public, in view of the fact that the general public throughout Australia have been deeply moved by this distressing occurrence.”
The Southern Cloud, a National Airways monoplane, left Sydney for Melbourne on March 21. The passengers were:—Clyde C. Hood, of Sydney; H. A. Farrall, of Caulfield; Miss E. Glasgow. of Toorak: J. Margules, of Melbourne; W. O’Reilly and Miss E. Stokes. The pilots were T. W. Shortridge and C. L. Dunnell.
The ’plane was seen near Albury at midday, and was later reported near Wangarratta, in Victoria, just over the border. Then it vanished, and, despite a most thorough search, no definite trace of the machine has been reported. The most likely theory is that the machine flew T into the sea during the thick and stormy weather that prevailed on the day it disappeared
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 78, 1 April 1931, Page 1
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