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Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1932, Page 6

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AMERICAN PLANE OVERDUE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyri^litJ j LONDON, September 16. ; .The Nurse” is twentythree hours overdue. It is estimated tjhat the petnol was exhausted at midnight on Wednesday. Grave fears are entertained for the. safety of'the monoplane, which was last reliably reportfour hundred miles south-west of Ireland...- ' .V ;! THREE GERMAN'S MISSING. There are grave fears for the safety' df ithe (German flier, Udet, ( ;;his two: companiibis, who took olf in a search for the Hutchisons on September 14th. They have not since been reported. SIBERIAN AIR MAIL. MOSCOW, September 16. A new air .service linking Moscow wtih Vladivos-tock is being opened next month with nine Soviet manufactured passenger aeroplanes, equipped for night flying. The journey will take two days, compared with the present eight by train. FRENCH PLANE TRAGEDY. ; <■;/> .. . LONDON, September,l7. ' When trying •to find the Croydon Aerodrome in 'a fog, a French 'Air Union freight aeroplane crashed at the Hotel Harden, a few miles away. The was Milled, bad the mechanic, was injured. NAVAL RASE AT DARWIN. . DARWIN, September 18. The ships of the 'Australian Fleet have been exercising off Darwin. The (Admiral, Capfruns and Officers are greatly ..impressed with the potentialities of Port Darwin harbour, as a safe and sheltered naval base. Elaborate fortification work is being now carried on there. R.A.F. TRAGEDY. . SINGAPORE, September 16. /. boat belonging -to the R.-A.F. base at Singapore sank. The pilot and two members of the crew wene '/rescued, hut th & others were trapped inside the wreckage and they were drowned, despite .desperate efforts on the;, part of th e survivors to release them. ■