FAULTY COMPASS
HOW LADY YOUNG FLEW OFF HER COURSE CAPE TOWN, March 8. Lady Young, who was lost for some days when forced down in the wilds, has reached civilisation. She rejoined her husband at Lusaka. She attributes the misdirection of her flight to a faulty compass. Her petrol ran short and she decided to land in an open space, which proved to be a Kaffir cornfield, which clogged the undercarriage, and the aeroplane overturned. The natives supplied food when asked for it by Dr. Kirby, Lady Young's companion, who knew the native language. Lady Young was carried 90 miles through dense bush by the natives, while Dr. Kirby walked. , When the machine overturned Lady Young and Dr. Kirby were both temporarily stunned. Later they struggled through dense jungle and lion and mosquito-infested country until they reached a locust ranger's camp in an exhausted condition. They are now little the worse lor their adventure.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21419, 11 March 1935, Page 6
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