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NO NEWS AT
WYNDHAM
Mission Natives Scour
Country
Wyndham, June 19.
All further efforts by the Wyndham
and Darwin wireless stations to pick up
signals from the launch party have
been fruitless. The launch should
easily have reached its objective by
now; but. as it is not known even
whether the party will return or co on
to Drysdale, the time of its arrival
here is most uncertain.
The party has been instructed to
make the plane eecure against a pos
sible high tide, as it is probable that
the Civil Aviation Department will
attempt to salvage the machine if.
as Pilot Sutcliffe thinks, it landed
there under its own power. If not
damaged by natives, it may be neces
sary only to find the missinc float.
Although the air party yesterday
examined very minutely the coast be
tween the plane and the spot where
Father Cubero received the report,
there was no sien of the float.
It is suggested that the aviators
possibly buried it in the sand and
left directions for finding it on the
missing cigarette case.
There are more native rumors from
Forrest River that the airmen have
been murdered, and some natives
state that they were killed on the
Liyne River, a large unmapped stream
flowing in an easterly direction
parallel with the coast and entering
the Gulf of Cambridge, a few miles
south of its mouth.
Mr. Johnston, superintendent of the
Forrest River Mission, reports that
he has had about forty natives scour
ins the country for the last week,
without result.
Constable Marshall and narty have
now left Forrest River, and expect to
return within a fortnight at the latest.
Probably Forced Into Bosh
Sergeant Flinders believes that the
airmen, afier having exhausted their
tinned rations, entered the bush in
the hope of finding eld, and were
murdered and eaten by the natives not
more than five miles from the coast.
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