RESCUE OF COURTAULD
THRILLS IN GREENLAND FOOT-PARTY WINS RACE [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. COPYBIGHT.] COPENHAGEN, May 8. A description of Courtauld’s rescue in Greenland has been wirelessed from Agmagsalik. The rescue is described as having been a race between Captain Ahrenberg, the airman, and Watkins’s party. ' The latter’s party, toiling with its dogs and sledges across the ice, reached him first and made the rescue. The party is now en route to its base, Courtauld joyfully leading the way. He is fit and well, despite his privations. Meanwhile Captain Ahrenberg made an almost miraculous discovery of Courtauld’s hut, which was piled up with snow. Ahrenberg landed on treacherous ice in the vicinity. Finding the hut was deserted, he flew dangerously low as he was following the sledge tracks, until he overtook the Watkin’s expedition, from which Cour*tauld signalled “Everything right! I consider it a miracle,” he said. Latfge Kock, 1 ' the explorer, referring to the rescue, said that it was difficult to visualise what Courtauld must have gone, through during the past terrible months of Arctic hurricanes and loneliness. The whole thing was like a fairy tale. Few men could have stood it. AHRENBERG HONOURED. STOCKHOLM, May 9. The Swedish Aero Club awarded its gold medal to Captain Ahrenberg, in recognition of his share in the rescue of Courtauld. SOUTHERN CLOUD “MESSAGE.” SYDNEY, May 10. Australian Airways officials consider that the so-called Southern Cloud message, picked 1 up at Port Kembla is a hoax. They say the board is not like anything used aboard the air liner, and that the inscription is so crude as to be that of a boy or an unlettered adult. VICTORIAN DERBY; MELBOURNE, May 10. Major De Haviland finished first in the Aereial Derby at the Victorian the Aerial Derby, " at the Victorian qualified for cutting a corner. Major Murray Jonas was second, but was unable to take the prize, as he was piloting a Government machine. Mr. J. Turner, in a Hawk Moth, was, third, and was placed first. DORNIER D’OX. SAINT VINCENT, May 9. The flying Dornier D’Ox has returned to the Bissagos Islands, where it is awaiting better weather.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1931, Page 5
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