Cameraman’s Plight.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 86, 7 April 1934, Page 3

Cameraman’s Plight.

Four Ambassadors have been fighting for the life of an unassuming man, John Dored, who was a member of Sir Hubert Wilkin’s North Pole expedition, writes an English correspondent. Dored’s life was always one of adventure, but at the time of writing he lay in a condemned cell in Vienna. His fate hung on an in-nocent-looking parcel containing a film of the Austrian fighting. Dored, a Russian by birth and formerly official photographer to the Imperial Court, was arrested in the streets of Vienna. His camera was smashed to pieces, but the film had already been smuggled over the border to Munich by special courier. At Munich a specially chartered aeroplane was waiting to speed it through the air to Paris, but the machine had a forced landing, and the parcel was sent on by train to Paris. After crossing the Channel in a plane which was forced, by fog to land at Lympne, the film was rushed by rail and road to Croydon, to be cleared through the Customs. All that night experts worked on the film so that it could be flown to Queenstown the next day and placed on board a liner bound for New York.