LOST IN DESERT SEVEN DAYS

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1928, Page 9

LOST IN DESERT SEVEN DAYS

PARTY WITH ONE DAY’S SUPPLIES. FOUND DEMENTED BY PLANES. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. United Service. Cairo, Oct. 5. An Egyptian, official and an Italian, with a chauffer and a Bedouin guide, left Cairo on September 29 for a day’s shooting in the Wadi Natrun, intending to return in the evening. They carried only a day’s supplies. As they did not return a search was instituted, including British Air Force machines. Two days’ search was fruitless, but the guide returned to Cairo, saying the petrol was exhausted and the party had lost the way. The airmen renewed the search, the machines flying low. To-day, near Fayum, an airman saw a man elSd only in a shirt waving a handkerchief at the end of a rifle. On alighting he found the man demented, and later found the other two in a eave, likewise demented, stalking each other witlx rifles. All three were in a pitiable state. They were given restoratives and borne in stretchers to the aeroplane and taken to the Heliopolis aerodrome.

No trace of the motor has been found. Die men are not yet able to give a coherent account of their adventure.