LIVED ON MALT

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 10, 13 January 1931, Page 7

LIVED ON MALT

Airmen Lost in Australian

Desert.

MISSED BY ONE 'PLANE.

MELBOURNE. January 12. Captain W. L. Pittendrugh and Mr. S. •J. Hainre. the two. airmen who were found in the desert in Central Australia, yesterday, were taken back to Alice Springs to-day. The marooned men had lived on water and malt tablets for 21 days. They arn weak and very thin, but not injured. They were forced down 130 miles north of Alice Springe owing ta a shortage of petrol on December 20. since when they had endured many anxious moments. They were dreadfully disappointed when on January 3 an airman in an Air Force aeroplane passed overhead without seeing them. Both men are receiving medical attention. Might-Lieutenant Daicon in an Air Force machine was the first to sight Captain Pittendrugh and Mr. Hamre on Saturday, and a motoring party, which included the Government agent at Alice Springs discovered the two men after a 280-miles search which was begun on January 10. They loeated them near Mount "Zeal, the flyers having walked. 3D miles to a water-hole after their forced descent. It i≤ expected that the cost of the search will be more than £3000. GIANT FLYING BOAT. BO.X TO RESUME FLIGHT. (■Received 10.SO a.m.) LISBON. January 12. The Dornier Do.X frying boa , :. vr'ai<& has been at Lisbon cor some time following the destruction of a wing by fire, will leave for rue Canary Islands on. January 20. from where she wu* scheduled to take oil on iier Atlantw fli<r(it.