SMITHY’S MESSAGE.
Urges That Search Be Continued. PLANE CAN FLOAT FOR DAYS. (Received December 7, 12.45 p.m.) HONOLULU, December 6. The searchers for Ulm were heartened to-day by a telegram from Sir Charles Kingsford Smith to Mr John Williams, a mutual friend of both Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Mr Ulm. The message read: “I definitely believe that Ulm’s machine is capable of floating for several days, and I strongly urge that the search be not yet abandoned.—Smi thy.” The message was handed to the authorities, and Commander E. W. Todd declared: “ We have no intention of abandoning the search while there is any hope. The navy has thirteen planes again sweeping parts of the area al- v ready covered by other ships in the' search yesterday and the day before. We are checking all reports to see that no small part of the surrounding water has been neglected.” The coastguard cutter Itasca, which is, with ten navy vessels, on a 120-mile front north-east of Kauai Island, sent a message that the weather was clear with moderate swells. The first to leave the air base to-day were four huge patrol ships, which, with two others of the same type, flew to Honolulu from San Francisco on January 9.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20482, 7 December 1934, Page 1
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208SMITHY’S MESSAGE. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20482, 7 December 1934, Page 1
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