ALONE IN DESERT
DIFFICULTIES OF RESCUE FOUR WEEKS ON HORSEBACK PERTH. Dec. 29 A Hercules aeroplane returned to I*orrest to-day after locating Mr. P. Whclan, one of the passengers who had to be left behind when his aeroplane took the air after a forced landing and repairs in Central Australia. Mr. Whelan was found in tho desert about 215 miles to the north, and provisions and water were dropped from the searching machine. No blacks were sighted. It is now proposed to go to his rescue on horseback, and the journey will probably take four weeks. The pilot of the first aeroplane, Mr. N. Baker, and the other passenger, Mr. N. Sluckey, on their return to Cook, were bespattered with blood, showing obvious signs of hardship. The latter had a wound on his head, which lie received whilo trying to disentangle himself from the overturned aeroplane. The men were on an expedition to locate a gold reef in Central Australia when they made a forced landing in rough country and their aeroplane capsized.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21378, 30 December 1932, Page 7
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