ARCTIC MYSTERY
FINDING OF ANDREE'S BODY REMAINS PUT ON STEAMER Prcsi Awociation—By Telegraph—Copyright. STOCKHOLM, August 25. (Received August 26, at noon.) The corpses of Aridree and Ids companions have been placed aboard tbo Bratvaag wrapped in sail cloth, with three rifles, two cases of instruments, harpoons, fishing tackle, Andree’s altimeter and diary, and tho remains of a bear. Tho Bratvaag is expected to reach Norway on September 10. [A thirty-threc-year-old mystery was revealed to tho world by the discovery in tho Arctic wastes of tho remarkably preserved body of the Swedish explorer, Salomon Andree, who set out with two companions in a balloon in 1897 from Dane’s Island, Spitsbergen, in an attempt to drift with tho wind across tho Pole. Ho had arranged to tell tho world his progress by means of carrier pigeons, but after ho had been gone two days nothing was over heard. The last message gave the position of the balloon as 82dbg north. Although numerous search parties were sent out, no|definite conclusion of their fate was over reached.]
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Evening Star, Issue 20572, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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173ARCTIC MYSTERY Evening Star, Issue 20572, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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