ENGULFED IN AVALANCHE
TWENTY-ONE KILLED SOLDI EIRS BURIED FOR DAYS ITALIAN COMPANY OVERWHELMED RESCUERS TUNNEL INTO. SNOW By Telegraph—Press Assn.-Copyright ’ Rec.'S p.m. Rome, Jan. 29. A company of Italian alpine Soldiery taking part in manoeuvres in the Piedmontese Alps, South Modena, was engulfed in an avalanche.. Twenty-one perished, the company being snowbound from Sunday to Tuesday. The survivors were saved by rescuers who tunnelled through the. snow. When found the men were frostbitten and famished.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1931, Page 9
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