MISSING AIRMEN
CANNIBAL THEORY DOUBTED
NO HOPE IS NOW HELD OUT.
(Australian Press Association.) ,
(Received this day at 9.25 a.m) PERTH, June 21
Pilot Sutcliffe, who searched for tne lost German fliers for three days, returned to JPertli and expressed little hope of the men being alive. The theory that they were' killed and eaten by Blacks, however, is opposed by Mr A. Neville, Chief Protector, of the aborigines, who says that there has never been even a suspicion of white men being eaten by the Blacks.
“I do not believe for a moment that they have been eaten, and I doubt very much if they were killed.”
Sutcliffe said that the gorges around the district were swarming with crocodiles.
Native reports are all definite that only two men landed, and that these wete killed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1932, Page 5
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