LAST DESPAIRING HOPE
TELEPHONE WIRE CUT. MEN SAVED FROM DEATH. (Received 11.30 a.m.) PERTH, This Day. A Postal Department mechanic who went out to repair a telephone line between Broome, 1,256 miles north-west of Fremantle and Darwin, on Christmas Eve, not only found the break, but also two men, who were on the point of death from thirst. One of the men, named Cameron, who was walking from Broome to Darwin, had cut the wire in the hope that he would be rescued by the repair party. When Cameron revived he revealed that another man further along the line was in desperate plight. The mechanic discovered the second man scraping in the sand for water. Both men have now recovered.
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Northern Advocate, 28 December 1934, Page 5
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120LAST DESPAIRING HOPE Northern Advocate, 28 December 1934, Page 5
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