IS “SMITHY” ALIVE?
MESSAGE TO MEDIUM AIRMAN ON CORAL ISLAND? LONDON, Jan. 14. The Sun Herald Service says that the Foreign Office has received a report, from Sir Hubert Montgomery (British Minister at the Hague) concerning information about Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, alleged to have been given at a seance at. The Hague. The Foreign Office has advised the Commonwealth, Admiralty, and Air Ministry of tire report, which says that: an elderly woman medium has received a message from the “spirit” of the Dutch pilot, Captain Beckman, who was killed in the “flying hotel,” that Sir Charles “has not yet passed over,” but is on a. coral island near Bencoolen <n the Sumatra coast in great distress and danger. The message urges immediate help. It is slated that the message was intended for the British Legation, to which it. was accordingly sent.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 13, 16 January 1936, Page 7
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