A LUCKY ESCAPE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13751, 17 June 1913, Page 2

A LUCKY ESCAPE.

To a sorios of fortxmato chances an inhabitant of Berck-sur-Mer, Franco, owes his escape from a horrible and lingering death. Tho gentleman, who is partly paralysed, had rashly ventured in his donkey-drawn cart on to tho sand at low tide. At a certain point his vehicle was caught in a quicksand. Unable to stir a limb, he could only watch, powerless and terror stricken, tho advancing tide. But the drono and throb of a motor reached his ear. It was a military aviator returning to his. hanger at Lo Crotoy. Struck by the- presence of a vehicle at so lato an hour—it was just sunsot —and in such a spot, tho pilot descended to within a hundred feeb of tho beach, and thero hung,. circling like a great bird. As luck would have it, a cocklo fisher returning to Bcrck along tho dunes was struck by the strange manoeuvres of tlio aeroplane. He approached, and immediately realised the dangerous plight of the imprisoned man. But the wheels of the cart wore. now axle deep in the shifting sand, and it was necessary to summon the keener of tho

neighbouring lighthouse before tho occupant of tho cart could bo dragged to firm ground and to safety, just in time, for a few moments later the waves were washing over tho spot where he 'had looked death in the face for two terriblo hours.