CUT OFF BY SNOW
EFFORTS TO RESCUE FRENCH,
PARTY
GRENOBLE, February 24.
French alpine troops began tunnelling two miles through snow to rescue the Air Minister, M. Pierre Cot, and the Under-Secretary of Physical Education,: M. L. Lagrange, and six deputies who were cut off by avalanches in a moun-| tain village near the Italian frontierj while touring the French winter sports centres. " .
All yesterday rescue parties unsuc-i cessfully made efforts to penetrate thd 60-feet deep snowdrifts. The com-] mander of the troops declared that itj might be two days before those isolated.l are reached.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 9
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95CUT OFF BY SNOW Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 9
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