PRESSMAN’S' EXPERIENCES
(Hoc. 9.5 a'.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 25. Missing since August 7 when an Allied plane disappeared oyer Now Guinea Mr V. Haugland, American correspondent representing the Associated Press, is now reported safe at Port Moresby, where he arrived by plane on Wednesday. He is in hospital suffering from exhaustion lack of food, and malaria. Ho is believed to have parachuted from the plane when a fuel shortage made a crash inevitable. He reached a mission station after a nightmare journey through trackless jungle country. His condition is still too serious for him to toll a connected story, but he is understood to have wandered for weeks in the jungle, lost and without food. Ho was one of the first American correspondents to reach Australia after the outbreak of tho Pacific war.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 254, 25 September 1942, Page 5
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132PRESSMAN’S' EXPERIENCES Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 254, 25 September 1942, Page 5
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