THE LEWINS’ MESSAGE
TRICK FLYERS’ SUCCESS RESCUE DIFFICULTIES KHARTOUM, Oct. 17. Clever trick flying enabled a member of the Air Force to pick up a message from Mrs. Lewin. She attached a message to a line suspended on two poles. The pilot, flying low, caught it. The message stated: “We do so appreciate all the efforts being made for us. We are deeply grieved and upset at what has occurred.”
It added that the Lewins had enough food and water for three days. Mrs. Lewin thinks that they cannot tackle the journey across the swamps and requests hammocks and stretchers. Air Force flyers were to-day unable to trace the land party of natives, which were reported to be a few miles from the Lewins. When the rescuers reach the scene, the Lewins’ difficulty will not be over as the nearest they can pick up the river steamer is 100 miles south.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 248, 19 October 1937, Page 7
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