TRAPPED BY SNOW!
ALARM FELT FOR PARTY OF TASMANIANS MEN ARE SHORT OF FOOD (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright)'. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) j Reed. 9.55 a.in. HOBART, Today. | The plight, of a party of meu who j are short of food, and who are cut j off by deep snow at the northern end of the Great Lake, is becoming serious. A telephone message stated that the snow is four feet deep in some places, and that snow is still falling. The party is digging its way through at the rate of a mile a day, and hopes to meet a party proceeding likewise from Deloraine. Attempts to reach the men by car and launch were useless. The lake is frozen from end to end. A rescue party is leaving Deloraine today. The Great Lake is 14 miles across at its greatest width, and is IS miles long.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 9
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