Saved by Native
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Angau Head In
Plane Crash
Saved by Native Chauffeur
THE head of the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit, Major- General Basil M. Morris, was hauled from a burning plane by his native chauffeur recently. General Morris re ceived a broken right arm, badly tom muscles and ligaments in the left arm.
He was on an inspection tour, accom panied by his ADC, Lieutenant F. A.
Franklin, his chauffeur, Constable Kol (a Manus native) and his personal servant, Nou, of Hanuabada, Moresby.
Squally cross-winds were blowing across the Cape Gloucester airstrip, and a sud den gust struck the plane as it was about to land. Disregarding a bleeding gash in his head and the flames from the burning plane, Constable Kol climbed on to the top of the fuselage, put his hands under the General’s armpits, and hauled him bodily out.