FOLLOWING UP CLUES
' DIFFICULTY. OF SEARCH
(Beceived 17th January, 1.30 p.m.); BASLE, 16th January.' " Snowstorms, clouds, and bad visi* bility prevented Captain Hope front thoroughly scrutinising the Alps. The airman made two nights over the sector Hinkler probably traversed. Other reports have now been received of an aeroplane above Morgins on the morning of 7th January. Hope ascertained that a. policeman at' Montana-Vermala saw a machine heading for the Simplon half an hour after the report cabled yesterday. There were no Swiss or French machines in. the locality that day. Hinkler should have been there at 8 a.m., but if the machine seen at 11 a.m. was his, it shows that he had been trying for some time to get through the cloud barrier which was thick over the Jura that day. " . Lack of news on the Italian side suggests that the airman did not get across. It is significant that Hope in. the forenoon feared to have to make a. forced landing from a height of 7000, feet, but surmounted the trouble, though there was ice on his carburettor , when he landed.. . ' A He will search Montana-Vennala to. morrow.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1933, Page 7
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190FOLLOWING UP CLUES Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1933, Page 7
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