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/EEP Ti?4 VELLERS ARE
LOST AGAIN
NEW YORK, Thurs (AAP): Amphibian jeep travellers Major Ben Carlin, of Nedlands, and his American bride are missing for a second time. . Nothing has been heard from the jeep since it sailed from Ashbury Park (New Jersey) on July 3 for New York to make a second start
on a round-the-world trip. . A Coast Guard spokes man said today: 'We are not worried yet. It would need only a slight breeze or current to send that craft backwards.' The Carlins originally left New York on June 16 for Azores on the first leg of their trans-Atlantic crossing. Nothing was .heard ,of them for five days, then they turned up at Shark River inlet near Ashbury Park, 40 miles south of New York. They said that steering difficulties had ,..forced them to abandon their journey.