LOST AIRMEN
FORCED DOWN IN DESERT LONG WALK TOWARDS CAIRO ptw Association—By Telegraph—Copyright CAIRO, January 3. [(Received January 4, at 1.30 a.m.) M. de St. Exupery and Provost arrived in Cairo in a distressed condition. . They were forced down in the. desert 'l2O miles east of Cairo in a terrific storm. They had to abandon the • machine and were guided by Arabs. They walked back nearly all the way to Cairo before they, succeeded in obtaining transport. '• fA message received on January 2 stated: M. de St. Exupery, airman and author of the- novel ‘ Night Flight,’ who with a co-pilot, Provost, left Pans on December 29 on an - attempt on a ■. record flight to Saigon, is believed to be lost in the desert beyond Gersama- ' truh after leavings Benghazi the. same night for Basra. British and Egyptian, Air Forces are searching.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22228, 4 January 1936, Page 11
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141LOST AIRMEN Evening Star, Issue 22228, 4 January 1936, Page 11
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