STEWARDESS OVERBOARD!

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1929, Page 5

STEWARDESS OVERBOARD!

AUSSIE GIRL’S CLAIM

THIRTY HOURS’ SWIM

(Australian Press Assn.) ' (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.)

(Received August 29, 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, August 28.

Gloria Mac Allister, claiming to have been born in Australia, was found semiconscious on the beach at Montalivet. She told the gendarmes that she had been in the water for thirty hours. She said that she left Newcastle on Saturday, for Shanghai, as a stewardess, hut felt ill after Sunday night’s festivities, and went on deck. She felt for the railing as the ship lurched. She grabbed a piece of timber and floated all night long, and all Monday. At dawn on Tuesday she saw the Corarin lighthouse, and swam thereto, but a current carried her twenty miles south. The gendarmes were credible, but the pilots and fishermen are sceptical. They say that her steamer passed five miles from the coast. The currents bear north not south. Furthermore, a rowing boat was seen offshore last night. > Inquiries are continuing.

ESCAPE FROM HOME?

(United Service.)

(Received August 29, 2.15 p.m.) LONDON, August 28.

The “Guardian” says that the British Consulate, investigating Gloria McAllister’s story, discovered exaggerations and contradictions. It is suggested that she escaped from a nursing home nearby. Lloyd’s declare that there is no vessel named, the Eagle trading between Newcastle and Shanghai.