ITALIANS IN NORWAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 9

ITALIANS IN NORWAY.

Returned Explorers Given Icy Greeting. COMPLETE SILENCE. (Australian and N.Z. Press Assoeiatioa.) STOCKHOLM, July 27. The wrecked Italians supply ship, i the Citta tli Milano, met with a sullen reception at Narvik, Norway. Many people watched her arrival, but there were no signs of a demonstration or of any tribute. Norwegian feeling is bitter over the fate of the Swedish scientist, Professor Malmgren, and the disappearance of the Norwegian explorer, Captain Raoid Amundsen. This feeling showed itself when a mooring rope was thrown on it <h >' quay with a request to make it fn. t. .No one offered assistance, and a member of the crew of the ( itta di ?\Tii.s no had to jump ashore. 11'- made ?a.-*t the rope while Norwegian s«ii)"i- looked on in icy i silence. There was not tin- -ii»htest sign of anv greeting. An,: the gangway had been lowered m: : ined Italian 'ep watch on tli'- deck, while 2sorw*egi< policemen kepi uuard on shore. Faced bv a crowd of silent binder* the Italia's M.rvivors re« d ; J— - 1 !Xh,'' l^nr which came about 20 persons. !yi .;. all looked well except general : i>bui, who who „ u.ing was carried into the coach eo ;« is not known whether Commandant Mariano accompanied the others on the trip to Stockholm. A great crowd watched the departure of the train. Again there was complete silence. -