LOST IN DESERT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 9

LOST IN DESERT.

EGYPTIAN SENSATION. Shooting Party Found Naked And Demented. PICKED UP BY 'PLANE. ■ (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 12 noon.) ; CAIRO, October 5. An Egyptian official message states that two Italians with a chauffeur and a Bedouin guide left Cairo on September 29 for a day's shooting at Wadinatrun, intending to return in the evening.

The party carried only one day's supplies, and as they had not returned a search was instituted, including the use of British Air Force machines.

This, however, proved fruitless for two days, but the guide then returned to Cairo, saying that the petrol was exhausted and the party became lost. Airmen renewed their search, one machine flying low, and to-day near Fayyoum the pilot saw a man clad only in a shirt waving a handkerchief on the end of a rifle.

The airman alighted and found that the man was demented. Later he found the other two members of the party in a cave, naked and likewise demented, and stalking each other with rifles.

• All three- were in a pitiable state. They were given restoratives and borne in stretchers in the aeroplane Heliopolis aerodrome. No trace of the motor has been found. The men are not yet able to give a coherent account of their adventure.