hantly Coloured Plane Seen Near Canadian Border Machine Sent to Investigat:
Hope Abandoned Ottawa, Mar. 16.
'A faint ray of hope that Captain' inchliffe, who left Cranwell Aero-Jrome in England last Tuesday morning, has reached land is held gut in a report to the Minister of Marine from the Canadian Pacific Railway office at St. John, New Brunswick, that three persons heard an aeroplane early yesterday morning in sparsely wooded country 20 miles north-west of Greenville, Maine, about 50 miles from the Canadian border, while the postmaster of a small hamlet brilliantly coloured plane morning flying in a north-westerly iers having been picked up by a ship without wireless.
The liner Majestic, which reached Cherbourg yesterday from New. York, reported that on Tuesday, when the fight began, a sharp lookout was kept for the fliers, but no aeroplane was seen. The werther was very bad and there was a snowstorm. In the storm Captain Hincheliffe's machine might have been forced down into the occa Meanwhile other interes flights are making satisfactory progress. Lady Bailey, wife of Sir Abe Bailey, has reached Tripoli on her way to Capetown, accomplishing the flight across the Mediterranean Prayers Broadcast New York, Mar, 16.
Prayers for Captain Hinchliffe and_. Miss Elsie Mackay, Lord Incheapo's daughter, who accom-him, were offered at broadcast. station to-day and, the unseen audience was asked to join in the singing of a hymn.
Later, No one else has so far confirmed the reports regarding the thie persons who are said to have hei the whirl of an aeroplane yestermorning in, the vicinity of Greenville, The neighbourhood is a Wilderness with only a few scatter ed_lumber-camps.
Both the Canadian and United States Governments are considering sending an aeroplane to in-Yestigate, but are waiting until the reports are better founded, Ottawa, Mar. 17.
'A Canadian Air Force plane has boon despatched to Greenville to investigate the possibility of Captain Hinchliffe having descended there. Reuter.
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