Risky Air Rescues
PLANES TAKE WOMEN FROM KABUL OVER WILD COUNTRY British Official Wireless Reed. 11.10 a.m. RUGBY, Thurs. Tlie women and children alreadyevacuated by British airplanes from the legations at Kabul, other than British, are 16 German, 10 French, one Swiss and one Rumanian. Arrangements have been made for British airplanes to bring from Kabul to Peshawar the women and children of the following further nationalities: Italian, American, Persian, Turk and German. It was hoped to carry out evacuation of some of these yesterday, but snow fell heavily and made it impracticable. The difficulties attending rescue by air are, of course, very considerable. The distance from Kabul to Peshawar is 160 miles, and the airplanes have to fly not only over wild country inhabited by hostile tribesmen, but also over lofty mountain peaks. Every precaution has, therefore, to be taken.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 548, 28 December 1928, Page 9
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141Risky Air Rescues Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 548, 28 December 1928, Page 9
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