Show SEARCHERS SEARCHERS' HOLD Pf fOR LIFE lIff Of AIRMAN Wild Beasts and Flooded Areas Impede Hunt Huntin in Jungles RANGOON Burma July 16 CAP AP Only Only a slender stender hope remained to today today today to- to day of ot finding the missing British air airman nan Eric Hook alive In the jungles Jungles Jun jun- elM where his friend and plane piano mate Jimmie Matthews left him dying last Saturday while he sought aid for both of them Ill III and injured as Hook was It was felt he would be no match for Bengal tigers famed for their ferocity with which the Jungle is populated There was some question ques- ques lon tion even of finding his body since the area also alio abounds in striped hyenas which leave little trade of at their thell depredations Nevertheless the s search arch went on Parties equipped cd with nth tents and medicines sent bt back k word they were were meeting with almost impossible impossible sible conditions Wide tracts were under inder water and had to be crossed In n boats Villagers helped in the search lending their canoes and boats Resting places at night for tor the rescue parties constituted an additional addi- addi lonal problem They frequently were forced to sleep steep In boats surrounded surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded by wIld animals f A system of camp watches had to be adhered to o rigidly |