MISSING SAILING SHIR

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 11, 13 July 1938, Page 9

MISSING SAILING SHIR

REPORTS TO AWARUAI

QUESTION OF SEARCH }

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)' "*"*"!

INVERCARGILL, July 12. ■«! VA doubt whether the. missing Ger«* man sailing ship Admiral Karpfangerj got as far as Cape Horn, as reported1 from Hamburg on June 24, was raised '■ today.

The Invercargill agents of the Ham-burg-Amerika Line, H. L. Tapley and Co., said that the ship spoke to the Awarua wireless station on February 28, giving her position as 49.42 degrees south and 165.18 degrees east. This point is to the west of the Antipodes and about due south of the* Snares. The Admiral Karpfanger called Awarua on March 1 and again on March 2, and that was the last heard from her. She must therefore^ have been a long way west of) -Cape -Horn, at the time she wasi thought to have reported there.

It is understood that if the Gov-i ernmerit steamer Matai is unable tot proceed to the islands to make a searchij for the missing crew, Captain R. J.. Hamilton, Bluff, will be prepared-" ta* * take the Tamatea down. However,: it may not be necessary for either ves-i sei to make the trip in view of the| fact that the German steamer Leunai is to proceed from Adelaide to Europe! via Cape Horn and to search for the missing ship.