DRANK PETROL
PARTY LOST IN DESERT R.A.F. TO RESCUE JERUSALEM, May 15. The vigilance of the Royal Air Force has saved a number of persons from a terrible dea/th in the desert. A motor-car with 25 passengers, set out from Bagdad for Beirut on April 25. The Belgian driver became fa.tigued and handed over the control of the car to his Armenian assistant. When he woke, he found that the car was off the track, and for two days he vainly sought to regain it. The water supply was now exhausted, and the Armenian, accompanied by some of the*, passengers, set out on foot to find a well. The Armenian perished after recording his privations in a notebook. An airplane eventually spotted the wanderers and the Air Force sent out two motor-cars, which picked up the dying survivors. Some, in their extremity, had been driven to drink petrol. .
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 363, 25 May 1928, Page 13
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