FOUND IN THE WILDS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21688, 5 July 1932, Page 7

FOUND IN THE WILDS

MISSING GERMAN AIRMEN BOTH ALIVE AND WELL (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, July 4. (Received July 4, at 9 p.m.) A wireless message from the Drysdale Mission in North-west Australia states that the missing German airmen, Bertram and Klansemann, who landed in a Junkers seaplane and made for the bush on May 15, have been found alive. FOUND BY NATIVES. PERTH, July 4, (Received July 4, at 9 p.m.) The German aviators. Bertram and Klansemann, who had been missing since May 15, were found on Juno 22 six miles west of Cape Bernier, by Drysdale natives who were preceding Constable Marshall’s police party. Constable Marshall made contact with them on June 29.

A launch left Wyndham to-day, and is expected to return with the airmen on Wednesday. The men are reported to be well but weak. It is understood that they at one period were mentally deranged temporarily as a result of hardship.

HELPED BY FRIENDLY NATIVES. PERTH, July 4. (Received July 4, at 10 p.m.) The aviators could just walk when they were discovered. Bertram was in a particularly bad way. They had a piece of half-cooked kangaroo in a towel. The spot at which they* were discovered is about 12 miles from the abandoned seaplane. As was anticipated, the seaplane’s float on which the men left to look for assistance, did not carry them far, and it was cast up on the shore in a damaged condition some distance from where the men were found. Friendly natives provided nourishment pending the arrival of the party from the mission on June 22.