Disappears In Europe

N G. Pilot

A YOUNG air pilot, Mr. Godfrey Levington Bond, who, until re cently, was flying aeroplanes in the regular New Guinea Airways service, between Lae and Wau, has been mak ing front-page history in the world’s newspapers.

Mr. Bond left New Guinea in Nov ember, with the expressed intention of reaching England in time to spend Christmas with his wife and child in Sussex. It is understood that he car ried a considerable sum of money in raw gold.

He appears to have left a mail steamer in Italy and spent some time in Rome. He joined the Rome-Calais express shortly before Christmas and from that moment was completely lost sight of. The police of Europe have been searching for him and his start ling disappearance was given consid erable prominence in the newspapers.

A few days later (on January 14, to be precise) a mysterious cablegram from Singapore, addressed to Bond, was received by Mr. Bond’s mother, in Sus sex. It read; “Give mother £1,100 balance yours (Signed) Elias Tiny.”

A couple of days afterwards a man, who said he was H. R. Wilson, tele poned to Mrs. Bond, enquiring for Mr.

Bond, and saying he had travelled with him from Singapore. He said that “Elias Tiny” was the name of a wealthy mining syndicate at Singapore.

Subsequent enquiries showed that Wilson was unknown at a bank address which he had given, and no trace has been found of the alleged Singapore syndicate.