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KINGSFORD SMITH

NO TRACE ANYWHERE.

(United Press Association.—By Electric

Telegraph.—Copyright.)

LONDON, October 1

The “Daily Mail’s” Rome correspondent reports that it is supposed that King.sford Smith lias either made a forced landing at some isolated spot or has refueled somewhere and proceeded direct to England.

The British Air Attache at Rome waited at the aerodrome until neari.t midnight.

NIGHTLONG VICIL.

KEPT AT ROME. LONDON, October 1. A niglit long vigil at the Rome Air port was maintained but not the s.ightest inkling of Kingsfcrd Smith, was received. The anxiety became intensified because no wireless signals were to be heard from the machine. It is feared that Smith has been forced down for the want of petrol, in the back country of the Balkans, The Air Force officials at London are puzzled that Smith has not used his emergency wireless.

HAS HE CRASHED? LONDON, October 1. No airport en route has even sighted Smith’s machine.

The “Evening News” correspondent at Rome considers it possible that Smith might have come down in Italian territory, as the route from Aleppo enters Italy just north of Bari, and thence goes over the Appenine mountains, passing over no inhabited centre larger than a small village. It might take many hours to reach a village and send news if the wireless were not functioning. The region of the route is of the wildest nature.

The experts consider that the chances of Kingsford Smith landing therein without a crash are of the smallest.

READY FQK WORST.

ROME, October 1. The airforce, acting under instruction from the Air Minister of Italy, are keeping ambulance and repair planes ready, but no effort has yet been made to search for Kingsford Smith, since the chances of finding an airman in the countless small val eys of the Appenines is almost negligible.

TRIBUTE TO SMITHY.

LONDON, Sept. 30. In paying a tribute To Kingsford Smith, the “Daily Telegraph” asks: “What puts this airman in the highest class?” The paper expresses the opinion that Smith’s secret cannot be put into a single word. He simply ha.-, every quality required—brilliant technical skill, courage, good humour in adversity, and wonderful physique. It, adds that he has accomplished almost every long distance flight worth attempting. The previous message as to the Rome aerodrome should have read that at the end the lights at the aerodome were turned out, and not up.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1931, Page 5

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Tapeke kupu
396

KINGSFORD SMITH Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1931, Page 5

KINGSFORD SMITH Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1931, Page 5

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