CUT OFF BY SNOW
60-Feet Drifts Maroon French Minister MOUNTAIN AVALANCHE (Received 25, 8.45 a.m.) GRENQBLE, Feb. 24. French alpine troops began tunnelling two miles through snow to rescue the Air Minister, M. Cot, the UnderSecretary of Physical Education, M. La GrangOj and six Deputies who were cut off by avalanches in a mountain village near the Italian frontier while touring the French winter sports centres. All day yesterday rescue parties unsuccessfully made offorts to penetrate 60 feet deep snowdrifts, butf a rescue was eff4cted this morning.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 35, 25 February 1937, Page 5
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