AMERICAN AIRMAN'S ADVENTURES.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20905, 12 July 1933, Page 9

AMERICAN AIRMAN'S ADVENTURES.

LOST ON FRINGE OF ARCTIC. (Received July 11, 11.55 p.m.) MOSCOW, July. 11. The full story told by Mr James Mattern, the American airman who was forced down in Siberia on his attempt to fly round the world, has been published here. After his forced landing he spent nearly three weeks in desolate country on the fringe of the Arctic. He only once saw human beings when he sighted a cutter sailing down the Anadir river. He signalled frantically, but was too far away. For eight days he lived at the scene of the crash. His scanty, ration of chocolate-and biscuits-was exhausted in three days, and then he shot small game, which was so scarce that he often went hungry. On the ninth day he moved to the river bank and built a hut, using young cedar trees, where he lived for six days, his hopes of rescue growing fainter every day. Then two barges manned /by Chukchi natives saw his signals and took him to a camp, where he met Soviet guards who had been searching for him. They took him tothe settlement of Anadir Chukota.