ADRIFT AT SEA
AIRMAN TELLS OF STORY OF HIS REMARKABLE EXISTENCE GENOA, Aug. 1. Stanislaus Hausner, the Polish airman who was forced into the sea on his trans-Atlantic flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Poland on June 4, tells a remarkable story of how he existed on his submerged machine while waiting to be rescued. Hausner did not sight the Celtic She-11 until June 2, and during the time he was in the sea he states that he lived on fish caught on a hook which be bent and fashioned from the needle of his compass. When the airman was picked up by the Celtic Shell, he was so exhausted that he could not' speak for days. He has been reeuperating in New Orleans to which port the ship was proceeding. His aeroplane was abandoned.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 304, 18 August 1932, Page 2
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