DIFFICULT RESCUE WORK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 October 1937, Page 5

DIFFICULT RESCUE WORK

STRANDED FLYERS IN THE SUDAN MESSAGE PICKED UP (United Press Association- B.v Electrio Telegraph—Copyright! KHARTOUM, 17th October. A clever trick of flying enabled a pilot of the Royal Air Force to pick up a message from Mrs Lewin, who, with her husband, Brigadier-General Corrie Lewin, made a forced landing near Malakal, in the Sudan. She attached a message to a line suspended between two poles, and the pilot, flying low, caught it. The message stated: “We do so appreciate! all the efforts being made for us. We are deeply grieved and upset at what has occurred.” It added that the stranded flyers had enough food and water for three days. Mrs Lewin thinks they cannot tackle the journey across the swamps, and asks for hammocks and stretchers. Members of the Air Force to-day were unable to trace the land party of natives, which is reported to be a few miles from Brigadier-General and Mrs Lewin. When the rescuers reach the scene the Lewins’ difficulty will not be over, as the nearest point where they can pick up a river steamer is a hundred miles to the south.

REACHED BY NATIVE TARTY [British Official Wireless] (Received 19th October, 10.55 a,in.) RUGBY, 18th October. A rescue party of natives reached the Lewins. BEING TAKEN TO KONGOK (Received 19th October, noon) KHARTOUM, 18th October. Searchers are bringing .Brigadier* General and Mrs Lewin to Kongor, where a Royal Air Force ’plane made a forced landing safely with the District Commissioner. It is hoped that the Lewins can be evacuated by air.