AVIATORS ALIVE

Taranaki Daily News, 5 July 1932, Page 7

AVIATORS ALIVE

! TWO (BERMANS RESCUED

FIVE WEEKS OF HARDSHIP

launch leaves wykdham

MEN REPORTED TO BE SVELL

TEMPORARILY DERANGED

By Telegraph—Pre?? Assn—Copyright. Ree. 7 p.m. Perth, July 4. The missing German airmen Hans Bert’ ram and Klausemann, -who landed in a Junkers seaplane at Ellis Island, north’ west Australia, and made for the bush on May. 15, were found alive on June 22 six miles west of Cape Bernier by Drysdale natives preceding Constable Marshall’s police party. Constable Marshall made contact with the fliers on Wednesday. A launch left Wyndham to-day and is expected to return with the airmen on Wednesday. The men are reported io be 'well but weak. It is understood they were at ope period tem’ porarily deranged owing to their hardships. The aviators could just walk when they were discovered. Bertram was in a parti? culgrly bad way. They had a piece of half-cooked kangaroo in a fowel. The spot where the wanderers were discovered was about twelve miles from the abandoned seaplane. As anticipated the seaplane’s float on which the men left to search for assistance did not carry them far and was cast up on shore in a damaged condition some distance from where the men were found. Friendly natives provided nourishment pending the arrival of th® party from the Drysdale mission on June 22..