AMUNDSEN SAFE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 142, 19 June 1925, Page 5

AMUNDSEN SAFE

MONTH'S HOMEWARD TREK

ALL THE PARTY WELL

AEROPLANES FROZEN IN

POLE BUSSED OWING TO FOG DURING FLIGHT

A number of cable messages received from London and New York announced the safe return to Spitzbergen of Captain Amundsen and his five companions, who set out a month ago in two aeroplanes to fiy to the North Pole, but had not since been heard of.

It is not clear from the messages so far received wheth* er the explorers actually reached the North Pole, though one declares that they did.

(UNITED PEKSS ASSOCIATION— COPIEIGHT.)

<AESTEALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received 19th June, 10 a.m.) ■' ■, T ' , „ LONDON, 18th June. Aews that Captain Amundsen and his party had returned safely was received by wireless from the steamer Heundal, dated Spitzbergen, 18th June. The message stated:—"We arrived at King's Bay all' right, at 1 o'clock

this morning," and was signed by Amundsen, Dietrichson, Ellsworth, Feucht, Omdal, and Riiser Larsen. t( _A Copyright wireless message from Amundsen says:— He ran into a fog, and when we were able to take observations we found we had flown 625 miles, but were too far to the west. We descended at 1 o'clock in the morning of the 22nd May upon water in the great iceland, where the aeroplanes were frozen in.

"We spent several days in reconnoitring, and believe there is no land further north on this side of the Norwegian Arctic Ocean."