LOST IN DESERT
FORCE]) TO DRINK PETROL. JERUSALEM, May 15. The vigilance of tiie Royal An Force lias saved a number of persons from a termne death in tno desert. A motor car with 21 passengers, •set out from Bagdad for Beirut on April 25. The Belgian driver became fatigued and handed over the control of the ear to his Armenian assitaut. When ho woke, he toimd that the car wa s off the track, and for two days he vainly sought to regain it. The water supply was now exhausted, and the Armenian, accompanied by isome of the pasengors, set out on foot to find a well. -To Armenian perished after recording Jus privations in a notebookAn aeroplane eventually spotted the wanderers and tbo Air force sent out two motor cars, which picked up the dying survivors. Seme, in their extremity, had been driven to drink petrol.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 64, 29 May 1928, Page 7
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148LOST IN DESERT Stratford Evening Post, Issue 64, 29 May 1928, Page 7
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