WRECKAGE IN ALPS
LARGE GERMAN PLANE MAY HAVE FLOWN FROM SPAIN [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received March 5, 6.30 p.m. NICE, March 4. A skier near Rubicon, in the lower Alps, found ten bodies amid the debris of a German aeroplane los‘ after a flight across the Mediterranean on February 25. A later report states that an additional body has been found. All are male civilians except one woman. The plane is believed to have crashed six to seven days ago, striking a mountain peak at a height of 5100 feet in dense fog in a military area where civil flying is forbidden. The pilot may have lost his bearings. A salvage party has left for the scene. Among half-burned papers found in the wreckage there are a number of typed sheets wherein the word Baro lona frequently appears.
GERMAN SUGGESTION
FRANKFURT-MILAN AIRLINER. (Independent Cable Service.) Received March 5, 7.10 p.m. BERLIN, March 4. The Lufthansa Company suggest that the crashed plane may be the Frankfurt-Milan airliner, which has been missing since October 1. There were ten passengers and, two of a crew.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 54, 6 March 1939, Page 7
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