HOPELESS SEARCH

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1020, 10 July 1930, Page 9

HOPELESS SEARCH

JUNGLE OR SEA HAS CLAIMED FLIERS PRESUMED TO BE DEAD United P.A.—By Telegraph—-Copyright DELHI, Wednesday. The Chief Secretary to the Government of Burma has published the following message:—“The Deputy-Commissioner at Sail doway says the search for the missing .airmen, Messrs. Hook and Mathews, is progressing, but is practically hope less among the uninhabitable hills. No promising news has been received from any quarter. “It is feared that the death of the airmen must he presumed, either in the impenetrable jungle or else over tho sea.”

WILL TRY AGAIN WYNNE EYTON’S PLANS IJEW YORK, Tuesday. A message from St. John's, Newfoundland. says Captain C. S. Wynne Eyton, who was painfully injured when his de Haviliand Puss Moth airplane crashed two days ago as he took off for. Harbour Grace, whence he had proposed to start on a lone flight to Ireland, intends to returp to England. The airman says he will go back to St. John’s next year and attempt the flight with the same type of airplane. WILL START FOR JAPAN FLIER PREPARES IN U.S.A. Reed. 11.10 a.m. VANCOUVER, Wednesday. A message from Tacoma, Washington, says Lieutenant Harold formerly of Victoria, 8.C., expects to arrive at Tacoma on Friday with a new airplane to replace the three which were previously detroyed. He plans to start, a uon-stop TaconiaTokyo flight within a few days. His plane is described as a monoplane, but not of the low-wing type that was previously wrecked in an attempted take-off. It has a 425 hp. wasp motor aud a cruising speed of 125 miles an hour.