RELIEF BROUGHT
BY STOPPING COMMUNICATION. PERTH, December 28. A Postal Department mechanic, who went out to repair a telephone line between Broome and Derby, on Christmas Eve, not only found the break but abo two men, on the point of death from thirst. One man named Cameron, who was walking from Broome to Darwin, had cut the wire, in the hope that he would be rescued l,v a repair party. When Cameron revived he revealed that another man further along the line was in a desperate plight. The mechanic discovered the second man scraping in the sand for water. Both men have now recovered.
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Grey River Argus, 29 December 1934, Page 7
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104RELIEF BROUGHT Grey River Argus, 29 December 1934, Page 7
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