FOUND ON BEACH.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 29 August 1929, Page 9

FOUND ON BEACH.

GIRL’S AMA23ING STORY. FELL OVERBOARD FROM STEAMER. (United Press Association—By Kleoiru. .1Oopyogtii..) (Australian Press Association.) PARIS, Aug. 28. Gloria McAllister, claiming to have been born in Australia, has figured in an amazing episode. Found semiconscious on a beach at Montalivet, sho told gendarmes that she had been in the water for 30 hours.

She left Newcastle (England) on Saturday for Shanghai as a stewardess. She felt ill after Sunday night’s festivities and went on deck and fell over the rail as the ship lurched.

Gloria grabbed a piece of timber and floated all night, all Monday, and saw dawn on Tuesday. Seeing the Cordran lighthouse she swam towards it, but the current carried her 20 miles south.

The gendarmes were credible, but pilots and fishermen are sceptical. They say her steamer passed 1 five miles from the coast and the currents bear north, not south. They are sceptical also because a boat Was seen offshore last, night. Inquiries are continuing.

CONTRADITIONS FOUND IN STORY. I United Press Association —By Electric TV.'“graph Copyright.) —United Service). Received 1.35 p.m. to-da.v. LONDON, Auk. 28. The “Guardian” saye that the British consulate is investigating Gloria McAllister’s story and discovered exaggerations and contradictions. It suggested that she escaped from a nursing home nearby. Lloyds declare that there is no vessel named Eagle trading between Newcastle and Shanghai.