A BOGUS MESSAGE
FOUND IN BEER BOTTLE. ECHO OF MISSING AIR-LINER. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, October 25. It has been reported from Melbourne that a. beer bottle was picked up in Laeepede Hay containing what purported to he a message from the air liner Southern Cloud, which was lost last March on a flight between Sydney and Melbourne with six passengers. The message stated that the ’plane was lost and was flying aimlessly over the water. The ending is blurred and it is apparently unsigned. Mr C. P. T. Uhn discounts the story. He says the ’plane carried no beer bottle and that the alleged message is couched in terms which would not bo used by an experienced airman. The Director of Navigation at Melbourne points out that the trend of sea currents is eastward, not westward, as they would need to he to carry’ flotsam to Laeepede Bay’.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1931, Page 6
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149A BOGUS MESSAGE Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1931, Page 6
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