MISSING AIRMEN
(Press. Assn.—
fears that bertram may have been killed by cannibals float used as boat
-By Telegraph — Copyrlght).
PERTH, Monday. While no official news concerning the missing German airmen has been received, a Perth amateur picked up "a wireless message stating that a party in a launch, which was sent from Wyndham to examine the abandoned seaplane, found on the 'plane a note dated May 20, reading: "Australia to-day. We left the 'plane in a float, using it as a boat, and are going in westerly direction along thecoast. — Bertram." The launch examined the coast but without success. According to another report Sergeant Flinders, of Wyndham, said that probably after exhausting their tinned rations, the airmen entered the bush in the hope of finding aid and were murdered and eaten by the natives not more than five miles from the coast.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 256, 21 June 1932, Page 5
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