AEROPLANE WRECKED
IN DESERT NEAR HELIOPOLIS. PARTY OF ITALIANS KILLED. INCLUDING WORKS MINISTER & EXPLORER. CAIRO, August 8. An Italian aeroplane, with a crew of four, in which Captain Luigi Razza, Minister of Public Works, was flying to Eritrea on a visit of inspection, accompanied by his secretary and Signor Raimondo Franchetti, a well-known explorer, was reported missing yesterday, and was subsequently discovered wrecked in the desert twelve miles west of Heliopolis. All the occupants were dead.
NOSE-DIVE FROM HEIGHT. ONE VICTIM THE RICHEST MAN IN ITALY. LONDON, August 8. The "Telegraph’s” Cairo correspondent says that British aeroplanes found the Italian machine embedded in the sand. It had obviously nose-dived from a great height. Signor Franchetti was the richest man in Italy and owned vast estates. He was engaged by Captain Razza as geographical adviser.
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Wairarapa Age, 10 August 1935, Page 5
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