GLIDER CRASHES
Pilot Crawls for Three Days with Broken Leg FEEDS ON BERRIES & SNAILS (Received 1, 11.50 a.m.) GENEVA, Oct. 31. After crawling for three days and nights with a broken leg across the forests of the Juras mcuntains, a young Swiss, Michel Martin, whose glider crashed on the French- Swiss frontier, was rescued after a search by 1000 .soldiers and many civilians and aeroplanes. The glider, caught by a whlrlwind, was flung on to the top of a tree and thenqe on to rocks. M. Martin 's nose was broken and a leg w.as broken in two places. He put splints on his leg with branches and strips -of clotHing and began to crawl down the vall'ey. He was without a drink for three nights. His only food was berries and -snails. He was taken to hospltal and is expected to teeover^
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 32, 1 November 1937, Page 7
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