ALPINE DRAMA.
LOST IN BLIZZARD.
Oxford Undergraduates in Austrian Mountain. TRAGEDY NARROWLY AVERTED (United P.A.- Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 1 p.m.) INNSBRUCK, March 21. A tragedy was narrowly averted by the efforts of a guide and a search party who saved the members of an Oxford University party in the Austrian Alps. J. M. S. Ross, an Australian undergraduate at New College, Oxford, also J. P. Busliell and G. Prcvitali, both Oxonians, were caught in a blizzard wliilo ski-ing on Arlberg Mountain. Busliell was lost in the storm, and Prcvitali went in search of him, sending Ross back to the guide's hut. The guide rescued Prcvitali exhausted and halffrozen. A search party found Busliell toiling uphill helping an Austrian woman who had missed her way.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 69, 22 March 1934, Page 7
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124ALPINE DRAMA. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 69, 22 March 1934, Page 7
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