NOTHING HEARD
, .NUMEROUS KUMOUUS (By Telegraph.—Ptess Association.> GISBOBNE, This Day. A message from Oslo, Norway, received by Mr. Ivan O'Meara, the wireless amateur, states that large airplanes, accompanied by steamships, and oquipped for Arctic work, are the moans proposed by the Norwegian Government , for searching the northern wastes for traces of tho lost dirigiblo Italia and the personnel of eighteen. Every radio in Norway and .Russia, particularly in Siberia, has strained ovory attention to catch some radio word, from the Italia. Nothing has been heard. There are all sorts of rumours in 1 Oslo concerning the fate of the airship, but all lack confirmation. Cesare Sabelli, the Italian flier, who is preparing in New York for a Now ; York-Borne flight, has announced that ha would hop off at noon on 29 th May for the Arctic.to aid in tho search for the Italia unless word of its safety was received before then. He plans to fly direct to Spokane and "thence-to Point Barrow, Alaska. From there ho will fly across the Polo to the vicinity in ! which' he might expect to find the Italia.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 127, 31 May 1928, Page 11
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