DROWNED IN RAPIDS
Englishmen Ignorcd All Warnings by Experts Ambition to be the flrst British canoeiits to oonquer the xapids of the river Salareh, ne&r Saliaburg, Austria, cost i the live? oi two British doctors attach- , ed to TJniversity College Hospital, London. Two Austriana are ihe only men to have crossed the dangerous rapids. The Englishmen, Dr. John Stothert, aged 27, of Mount Beacon House, Bath, and Dr. Eric Martin Kee, 23, of Baverstock . Hill, London, H., entered the rapids despite the warnings of experts, and wero not seen again. Before their attempt they handed their passports and luggage to Herbert Snalko, a German, of Bernburg. Speaking on the long-distance telephone to London, Snalko said: "The last words of my unfortunate cornpamons were: 'It doesn't matter if the hoata go to h«U. We'Jl buy other ones. All that mattefs is that we should be the flrst, Englishmen to come through thoie cataracta.' "
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 33, 2 November 1937, Page 13
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