SEARCHERS BRAVE BITTER COLD

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 9

SEARCHERS BRAVE BITTER COLD

Hunt For Lost Gold Bars PLANE PASSENGER’S STORY By Telegraph. Press Assn. —Copyright. London, January 27. Despite tlie bitter cold, hardy South of Englanders to-day are searching for the Hillman airliner’s lost gold which, if it has not fallen in the Channel, may be in anybody’s backyard. The newspapers published plans of the aeroplane’s route. The police are hunting Essex, Kent and Sussex for the airliner’s gold, but the route traversed is over lonely, wooded country and the force of the fall may have buried the bars feet underground. The consignees state that the goffi is insured and may be worth £20,000. Ihe pilot says that lie felt weight shifting as he was approaching Dungeness, but attributed it to the movement of passengers. The “Daily Sketch” states that a passenger, Mr. E. Turle, declares that while fierce winds were tossing the Hillman aeroplane lie beard a crash and saw the floor of the luggage compartment rip open and packages, including a case of gold, slip through the hole. He fixes the scene as near Berek aerodrome and tlie French coast. He thinks the gold fell into the sea or on the seashore. A message published yesterday stated that a Hillman Airways aeroplane was severely buffeted.while crossing the Channel, and when it landed in Essex it was found that the gale bad ripped open the luggage compartment. The contents, including £1(1,000 worth of gold _ from Paris, fell out. Two passengers in the aeroplane also lost their luggage. The gold, which was stored near tlip tail of the machine, consisted of bars in two wooden boxes'. It was considered most likely that they were lost in the Channel, hut the jfolice in Sussex and Kent were searching. _____