PRISONERS TILL MAY
OSLO, April 21. (Received April 23, at 1.30 a.in.) A wireless from Green Harbour states that Captain Wilkins and his companion, owing to tempestous weather and snowstorms, wore forced down on the small uninhabited island of Dauholmon, situated north of Spitsbergen, and were obliged to stay five days waiting for favourable weather before the flight to Green Harbour, which is a wireless station and a coalmining centre. Contain Wilkins and his companion will be obliged to stay at a small village called Long Year City, near Green Harbour, until tbo first few weeks inMay, when the general thaw of the Polar Sea sets in. At this village 400 men from the surrounding mines spend the winter, as the terrible conditions make work impossible.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 19848, 23 April 1928, Page 5
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128PRISONERS TILL MAY Evening Star, Issue 19848, 23 April 1928, Page 5
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