MISSING AIRMAN.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 18987, 3 July 1933, Page 5

MISSING AIRMAN.

MOTHER’S DRAMATIC WORDS. “HE LISTENS AND IS HAPPY." “My son is here. I can feel his presence. He is listening and he is happy.” These dramatic words by Mrs Maud Lancaster, mother of Captain W. N. Lancaster, the British airman who disappeared in a flight across the Sahara on April 12, electrified an audience at 'the Grotrian Hall, London She was holding a meeting to honour her son’s memory. Grey-haired and tremulous-voiced, she frequently appeared to be breaking down, especially when she referred to her last words with her son before he left England on April 11. “When my darling boy and I parted we planned that he would be back in England within three weeks, and we were to have a big .meeting to help my charities. Now that can never be. The meeting was to have been to-day. Dress He Designed. “This dress I am wearing,” she went on, “was designed by him whi-’a he was in prison in Miami.” She spoke with emotion of his arrest in the United States on a charge of murdering Mr lladen Clarke, who was found shot dead outside the Miami home of Mrs Keith Miller, the Australian airwoman. Cap Lain Lancaster was acquitted. “When he came back to England,” Mrs Lancaster said, “he could not get a job. He tramped the country from end to end in search of work. "I did not want him to go on this last flight, but he was promised a job if he succeeded. That is why I let him go. I could not bear to see him unhappy because he could not set work.” Then, trembling with emotion, Mrs Lancaster sang a song, “Son o’ Mine,” which she said had been transmitted to her “from the other side.” “I heard vaices singing it,” she explained. “But my husband, who was will! me. could hear nothing. Then the voices sang it a second lime. I knew it was from my son, and I remembered it.”