“WILL DIE IF HELP IS NOT SENT”
Ice-bound Men Call For Aid
DANISH PLANE LEAVING FOR GREENLAND By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Copenhagen, August 26. “We will die if help is not sent,” wirelessed four men ice-bound in a motor-boat without food or fuel off Cape Berlin, in north-east Greenland. Preparations for their rescue were already in a forward state in consequence of tlie receipt of earlier news, and a Danish torpedo seaplane, manned with volunteers, will set out in the morning. Leo Hansen, film photographer, and Christian Jensen, telegraphist, wintered at Nanok, a hunting company’s station. Tlie Danish naval boat Godthaab wont to their relief and became jammed in the ice 450 miles from the station. Meanwhile* Jensen became ill and he and Hansen decided to try to reach the Godthaab in a motor-boat, accompanied by two Nanok hunters, but they became blocked in the ice near Cape Berlin a week ago. It is assumed that they had a small wireless transmitter which they had taken from Nanok and with which they communicated with the Godthaab, which sent a message that the situation was critical and every hour precious.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 284, 28 August 1935, Page 9
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