DEATH CALL.
DYING OF THIRST.
TWO MEN RESCUED.
Had Cut Telephone Line As
Last Hope.
WEST AUSTRALIA DRAMA,
(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) j (Received 11.30 a.m.) PERTH, this day. A Postal Department mechanic who went out to repair a telephone line between Broome, 1256 miles north-west of Fremantlc, and Derby on Christmas Eve, not only found the break but also two men, who were on the point of death from thirst. One of the men, named Cameron, who .was walking from Broome to Darwin, liad cut the wire in the hope that he would be rescucd by the repair party. When Cameron revived he revealed that another man farther along the line was in desperate plight. Tho mechanic discovered the second man scraping in the sand for water. Both men have now recovered.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 307, 28 December 1934, Page 7
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