AFTER MANY WEEKS
MAN AND BOY RETURN GIVEN UP AS DEAD LONDON, Mar. 9. Joy was brought overnight to the homes of Ronald White, a 31-year-old Birmingham chemist, and Bernard Jones, a 13-year-old Warwickshire boy, who returned safe and well after their disappearance on Boxing Day at Ilfracombe. Their car was found deserted at the pier, and it was fe'ared that they had perished in climbing the cliffs. White explained that they were cut off by the tide while walking along the beach. They found a dinghy and tried to row to the pier, but were swept out to sea. A freighter, bound for Buenos Aires, picked them up exhausted. Transhipment was impossible so they were carried on to South America. They lived by doing odd jobs ashore till they were able to work their passage home.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23136, 11 March 1937, Page 9
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