ALPINE TRAGEDY
THEIR MAJESTIES’ SYMPATHY
(British Offic'nl Wireless.)
RUGBY, August 22
The King and Queen have sent their deep and heartfelt sympathy to’ Eton, in the terrible loss the school has suffered through the deaths of four masters while descending a mountain in the Swiss Bernina Alpji. Messrs Powell, Slater, Howon and WliiteThompson were buried to-day in one grave in the Protestant cemetery at Pont Resina. At Eton to-day, all the shops were shut, and the College was closed to visitors, for .an hour.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1933, Page 5
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84ALPINE TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1933, Page 5
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