AVIATORS PLIGHT.
'Nearly Three Weeks In Desolate Country OFTEN WENT HUNGRY Received Tuesday, Midnight MOSCOW, July 11. The full story of Mattern 's adventures is published here. After a forced landing he spent nearly three weeks in desolate country on the fringe of the Arctic and only once saw human beings when he spied a cutter barge sailing down the Anadir river. He frantically signalled but was too far away. For eight days he lived at the scene of the crash on a scanty ration of chocolate biscuits. These were exhausted in three clays awd he then shot small game which was scarce. He often went hungry. On the ninth day he moved to the river bank and built •a hunt of young cedar trees where he lived for six days. Hope of rescue was growing fainter daily and then two barges manned by Chukchi natives saw his signals, and took him to camp, where he met the Soviet guards who had been searching for him, and they took him to the settlement of Anadirchukota.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1933, Page 7
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