Five Days in Desert
•GERMAN MINISTERFound Hungry and Thirsty by R.A.F. Plane DRANK RUSTY WATER (13/ Telegraph—Preu Copyright.! (Received 24, 1.15 p.m.) CAIRO, April 23. After a flve-days’ search by aeroplanes and cars. Baron von Stohrer. German Minister at Cairo, was found hungry and thirsty by a Royal Air Force plane 30 miles from Baharia, in the Libyan Desert. The Baron and his mechanic, seeing the plane, wrenched off the driving-mirror from their broken-down motor-car and used it as a heliograph. FlyingOfficer Richardson spotted the flashes.
The Baron, who greeted his rescuer with diplomatic courtesy, said that the steering gear broke during a blinding sandstorm.. He signalled vainly by means of clothes soaked in petrol. Tho food had been rationed and the last mouthful had been eaten hours before the rescue. It consisted of sardines aggravating their thirst. They had had to drink rusty water from the radiator.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 112, 24 April 1936, Page 5
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