LOST IN LONELY SEAS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 438, 21 August 1928, Page 9

LOST IN LONELY SEAS

No Word of Airmen DID NOT REACH GREENLAND ? FE lonely, icy seas between the mainland of Canada and the Greenland coast hold the secret of the fate of two more airmen, who were attempting- a flight to Stockholm by the northern route. (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and. N.Z. Press Association.) (United Service)

Reed. 9.50 a.m. VANCOUVER, Mon. The gasoline supply of the airplane Rockford, in which Messrs. Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer -were attempting a transatlantic flight, must have been exhausted many hours ago. After leaving Cochrane on Saturday, the radio was heard regularly while the machine was crossing northern Quebec, and then traversing Labrador and the fringes of Ungava but no word has been received since they left the Continental coastline for the jump across the iceberg-infested seas between the mainland and the Greenland coast. What has happened to them Is a matter for conjecture. The Canadian Government stations are exercising a constant vigilance for news of the missing Rockford plane. Continual short and long wave-

lengths are being sent out from the Belle Isle Strait, Port Burwell, and the Wakeham Bay stations. If the flyers crashed in Canadian territory they would have considerable trouble in finding a way out, for the territory over which they flew is barren and practically uninhabited. The airmen sent a wireless message at 6.4 p.m. on Saturday, saying that they were approaching the Labrador coast. A message from Rockford, Illinois, the place after which the plane was named, says the words “No sign of Hassell yet, plane long overdue,” which were sent by wireless from Mount Evans, Greenland, on Sunday evening, apparently rang the kneil of the airmen. The message was signed by Elmer Etes, a mechanic, who was sent ahead of the flight to await the arrival of the plane.