Montreal, Apr. 24.
The end of one of the greatest stories in Canadian mining rescue work, and one that must stand as almost unique in the whole world, was written early on 'Thursday morn: Ing at Moose River, Nova. Scotia, when Dr. D. E, Robertson. and Mr. Alfred Scadding' were brought to the surface of the gold mine which they hud been examining, after being In a living tomb for just over ten. days, As soon as the intrepid rescuers had Anished the task of partly carrying, and partly dragging the two sur vivors up the steep and treacherous shalt, they returned to the cavernous eptlis of the mine and reverently brought out the body of Mr. Herman Magill, former Toronto lawyer, and partner of Dr. Robertson in whet Aurned out to be such a tragic mining venture, The extent to which public Interest, not only in this country and in the United States, but also across the Atlantic in England and elsewhere, was roused, was in large measure due te the tension created by the giving out of half-hourly radio broadcasts fon the progress of the rescue curing the greater part of three days.
'This was corried ound'. the yogis of the Canadian Radio Commiisalon, but was gradually distributed more and more stations as the wore of digging a suto trench through the caved-in sections of the mine progressed. The only eritielsm that might be made of these broadcasts, which represented the entry of the Radio Commission into an entively new and strange field, was that on numerous occasions there was nothing new to report.
On these occasions the announcer ato content himself with a statement, but let loose a flood of high-sounding adjectives regarding the dangers being braved by. the rescuers, and closed with the promise that there might be "something very Important to tell of in another halt-hour."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.