AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN MISSING
Malayan Jungle Country
FRUITLESS THREE-DAY SEARCH By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received January 31, 8.30 p.m.) Darwin, January 31. Information has been brought by the pilots of the Empire air mail plane Arethusa that the two well-known Australian airmen. Messrs. Ray Parer and G. Hemsworth, are missing between Mergui and Victoria Point in mountainous jungle country, and that Royal Air Force aeroplanes have been searching for thj'ee days without result.
Parer had been operating an air service in New Guinea. Ho and J. C. Mclntosh made the second flight-from England to Australia in 1910.
Parer and Hemsworth are two Australian pilots who had been flying in New Guinea until shortly before the Centenary Air Race. They started in the race flying a Fairy Fox, similar to that in which Baines and Gilman crashed, entered by the New Guinea Flight Syndicate, but abandoned the race at Paris. They intend, they said, to continue to Australia as flying tourists and presumably have been doing so. Parer achieved world fame for his flight from England to Australia with Mclntosh in 1919-20.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 109, 1 February 1935, Page 11
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179AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN MISSING Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 109, 1 February 1935, Page 11
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