Signal From Lost Seaplane Revives Hope
Received Thursday, 9.45 a.m. PARIS, Aug. 4. ' ■ A'SignaL has beeil'^pickqd uy'fiU Dakar from the missing French sixjngined flying boat. The signals are reported to have come from a position about 200 miles from the French West African coast. An Adrniralty spokesman said ihat a faint radio message, which was picked up by a frigate, offered a glimmer of hope of tracing the seaplane. Seven United States Flying
j Fortresses today joined the search' for the flying boat, which has been missing since last . Thursday on a flight from' Martinique t.o Dakar with 25 persons aboard.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 August 1948, Page 5
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101Signal From Lost Seaplane Revives Hope Chronicle (Levin), 5 August 1948, Page 5
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