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Karachi, Sept. 2.
Looking worn and haggard from the privations and hardships they had undergone, passengers of the Imperial Airways liner "Horsa, which "landed here to-day, told a dramatic story of the ordeal they had passed through the. desert.
The pilot of the plane had made a perfect. landing at 430 am, in the darkness but, while taxi-ing, fouled hillock and slightly damaged the 'Continuing with their graphic tale, the passengers said that the country around them presented a scene of the utmost desolation, being devoid of vegetation, except stunted shrubs, and all' signs of life or water.
The only rations available consisted of a few sandwiches, a small quantity of water, a few chocolates, some mineral water and Whisky and one piece of fe, The heat during the two days they were marooned Was almost intolerable and they were foreed to rest gasping under the wings to avail themselves of what protection from the sun they were able to find.
order {o preserve supplies, each person. was allowed only one and a half cups of water and two biscuits twice a day.
The pilot was the first to succumb, fainting away owing to exhaustion and the extreme heat. Soon afterwar however, the second oflcer collops through a heart attack, Relief from the burning heat came uring the night which was pleasantly cool and. all revived considerably, especially when a small quantity of water was collected from the dew on the wings of the machine, \A Royal Air Force machine spotted them at 7 am, and re-appeared at 1 Pamy dropping bags of water and emergency rations to the marooned.
The relief aeroplane arrived sharily atlerwards and (ook off the entire
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