MISSING AIRMEN
GROSVENOR’S SEARCH RESULTLEoS. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, May 22. -e Amnlgiym.na‘d iWireless Ltd’s Wyndham .station advises that Captain Grosvem/r flow over tiie Forrest River country yesterday, and afterwards dropped ii note saying that lie had no news of the missing aviators. NOT AT KOEPANG. WELTEVREDEN, May 22. A resident of Kocpang confirms that Moir and Owen have not landed there. STEADIER TO AID. SYDNEY, May 22. 'llie Federal Government has decided to semi the. lighthouse steamer Ivyogle to search the Westralian coast for the missing aviators, Moil* and Owen and also the airplane “Atlanta,” which is available wiili Captain Brain in charge to assist from Darwin. SYDNEY TO SOURABAYA SYDNEY, May 22. An important feature of the search for Dloir and Owen is the announcement that Wing Commander Wackott last night, in Sydney, conducted radio communication wan Wing-Commander Smet, the Officer-in-Charge at the Sourabaya Air Force Station. The conversation was arranged by Amalgamated Wireless Ltd., this being the first occasion that radio telephony has been employed by officials of the two nations to discuss a matter of urgent national importance. Smet told Wackett that Dloir and Owen carried one gallon of water when they left Biina on Saturday, also some kind of rublrer life-preserving equipment, hut he was not sure whether it was a collapsible boat. They had sufficient petrol for twentyfour hours.
Smet added that the aviators had definitely not landed at Atnmboea.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1929, Page 5
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