DRAMA OF SWISS ALPS
Rescue Of Marooned Troops
LONDON, March 11. The Bertie correspondent of ‘’The Times” reports that bomb throwers, by releasing avalanches, liberated the Swiss alpine troops who had been snowed in in the Wildstrubel Hut, but that a fresh avalanche swept down 500 feet on to five members of the rearguard who were roped together. Rescuers found them, several having had ribs broken, and carried them down on sledges to Lenk, where English tourists and local people greeted them. , Seventy are still imprisoned in the Wildborn Hut. Though they lack food they will attempt the descent today, carrying the bodies of four of their dead comrades. DESCENT ACCOMPLISHED (Received March 12, 0.30 p.m.) BERNE, .March 11. The soldiers today descended from the Wildhorue Hut, bringing the bodies of (he three men killed by the avalanche. The fourth body is missSag.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 143, 13 March 1939, Page 9
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143DRAMA OF SWISS ALPS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 143, 13 March 1939, Page 9
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