JUST IN TIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 140, 15 June 1932, Page 7

JUST IN TIME.

AIRMAN SAVED

Dramatic Story of Rescue Of

Polish Flyer.

'PLANE NEARLY SUBMERGED. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received H a.m.) NEW YORK, June 14. If the Circle Shell had not happened to deviate from her usual course she would not have found Stanilaus Hausner, the young Polish aviator who was lost for a week on his attempt to fly non-stop from Newark, New Jersey to Warsaw.

According to a dramatic story by wireless of the rescue Captain Wilson and the chief officer noticed what appeared to be a buoy four miles on the starboard bow. Peculiar markings induced the captain to investigate and he discovered an aeroplane, one-third submerged, heaving in a roughening sea and threatening every moment to sink.

The Circle Shell blew her siren and a figure waved frantically and literally fell into a lifeboat exclaiming, "I'm Hausner. Save my ship." He was helped aboard the Circle Shell in almost complete darkness and lurched across the deck saying, "Thanks very much. Captain, I've been waiting for you eight days."

The airman then collapsed. He was incapable of discussing his experiences. He was uninjured except for superficial cuts and bruises.

HYDROPLANE FOUND.

Machine of Missing German

Aviators.

HUNT TOR AIRMEN,

PERTH, June 14.

A message from Wyndham states that the hydroplane in which the missing German airmen, Hans Bertram and Glausmann, left Koepang, Timor Island, for Darwin on May 15 has been found near the Drysdale Mission in the isolated North-west.

Attached to the machine was a message stating that the two aviators had gone into the bush. The search for them continues, but their survival is doubtful. Moreover, the natives in that area are described as treacherous.

A dispatch from Melbourne says the Civil Aviation Department states that the latest reports from the North-west prove that Bertram and Glausmann landed safely and then abandoned their hydroplane to seek assistance. The German Consul says there were originally four men in Bertram's party, consisting of Bertram himself, a co-pilot, a mechanic and a photographer. The two last-named stayed behind at Batavia.