AID BY PARACHUTE
SOVIET AIRWOMEN
FOUND IN SIBERIAN JUNGLE
(Received October 5, 10.30 a.m,)
. MOSCOW. October 4. Airmen are planning to make parachute jumps to go to the aid of the women long-distance flyers who have been missing since September 26, and who were found standing by their aero-' plane in a Siberian jungle' 100 miles north-west'of Komsomolsk. A record for a long-distance flight by women is claimed. Food and clothing have been dropped by parachutes.
A cablegram from Moscow on September 27 stated that three airwomen who had taken off on a non-stop flight to the Far East were missing east of Lake Baikal.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 13
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105AID BY PARACHUTE Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 13
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