MESSAGE FROM THE ARCTIC
AFTER FIFTY YEARS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 20. (Received March 21. at 1.5 a.m.) A bottle, containing a message from the Austro-Hungarian expedition of 1874, was picked up at Nova Zcinbla and fca'warded to Vienna. The letter is in excellent preservation, and has been identified by the sole survivor. It recounts how the ship was jammed in the ice pack, on Franz Josef Land, and the crew_ were compelled to abandon, the ship.—'Times.'
[ln 1874 Weyprecht and Payer set out on an Austrian "expedition with tho Tegetthof. They discovered Franz Josef Land, and reached in 1874 Cape Fligely, 80deg sGmin N., the nearest known land to tho Pole.]
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Evening Star, Issue 17924, 21 March 1922, Page 4
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