MISSING POLAR FLYERS
Flying-Boat Being Prepared for Search (Received 20, 8.4 5 a.m.) NEW YORE:, Aug, 19. Mechanics are working feverishly to prepare a liuge flying-boat in which Sir Hubert Wilkins aud Mr Hollick Kexxyon will search for the Soviet fliers, Alaskan wreather is still hampering the searchers. The oxxly clue so far supplied is from Eskimos on Barter Islaxxd, 300 miles from Barrow.( They said tliey heard the roar of epgineg four or five days ago. This raises the possibility that the fiiers reached North America. A later message from Montreal says; Sir Hubert Wilkins, with a crew of four, left for Alaska in n flying-boat to search for the missing Soviet flyqrs.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 183, 20 August 1937, Page 5
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