MINISTERS MAROONED
AVALANCHES IN THE ALPS. (United Press Association —Copyright.) GRENOBLE, February 24. French alpine troops have begun tunnelling two miles through the snow to rescue tho French Air Minister.(M. Pierre Cot) and the Under-Secretary: for Physical Education (M. Leo Lagrange) and six deputies, who were cut off by avalanches in a. mountain village near the Italian frontier while touring the French winter sports centres. All day yesterday rescue parties unsuccessfully made efforts to penetrate snowdrifts 60 feet deep. The commander of the troops declared that it might be two days before those isolated were reached.
THE PARTY RESCUED. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) PARIS, February 24. A message from Greliable states that M. Cot and M. Lagrange have been rescued.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19370225.2.48
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 115, 25 February 1937, Page 5
Word Count
121MINISTERS MAROONED Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 115, 25 February 1937, Page 5
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.