AIR ACCIDENT
AMERICAN CORRESPONDENTS KILLED IN NEW GUINEA. ATTACHED TO RED CROSS (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Two war correspondents attached to the American Red Cross have been killed in an aeroplane accident in New Guinea. They were Robert Lewis, of Columbus, Ohio, and Harry Poague, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lewis, a single man, aged 32, was formerly a reported on the “Philadelphia Bulletin.” He came to Australia from a similar appointment in Cairo only about six weeks ago. Poague was a widower aged about 45 years. He had been for a year in the South-West Pacific as a Red Cross photographer.
The two men went to New Guinea five weeks ago to obtain stories and pictures of Red Cross activities in the forward areas.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 4
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131AIR ACCIDENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 4
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