LOST BALLOON
i ■ BODIES FOUND AFTER MANY YEAR! AHDREE AND COMPANIONS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright* . OSLO, August 22,Hunters in Franz Josef Land found tho bodies of Andree and his companions, who set out in a balloon in 1897 for tho North Polo. They stated that the bodies were well preserved in tbo ice. . . . • Tho diary showed that Andree was tho last to die. [Solomon August Andree was born at Grenna, Sweden, _in 1854. He showed early- marked - interest in ballooning, and worked at a plan fop reaching the North Polo in tnis wayIn July, 1897, accordingly, ho left Danes Island, Spitzbergen, with two others, but was heal’d of no moreSome of tho buoys which they dropped were found, but beyond these the several'expeditions sent out to find him could discover nothing.^
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Evening Star, Issue 20570, 23 August 1930, Page 14
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130LOST BALLOON Evening Star, Issue 20570, 23 August 1930, Page 14
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