THE ITALIA

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 May 1928, Page 9

THE ITALIA

LATE EDITION

HAS SHE BEEN LOCATED? PRIVATE MESSAGE PICKED UP. SAID SIGNED BY NOBILE. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION — (UNITED SERVICE.) Received 11.55 a.m. to-day. SEATTLE, May 30. A wireless message from an Alaskan wireless station tins afternoon -said that tihe steamer Citta di Milano was heard 1 sending a private message to Rome signed Nobile. The Alaskan station reported that the messages indicated that the Italia had been Joeated. NEWiS NOT VERIFIED. Received 12.5 p.m. tto-day. SEATTLE, May 30. The report that General Noble has fceen located has not been verified. SEARCH PREPARATIONS. ITALIAN AVIATOR TO SE,T OUST. [by TELEGRAPH— press association . j GISBORNE, May 31.

Air Ivan O’Meara has picked, up the following messages' from Oslo, Norway: “Large aoioplanes, accompanied by steamships equipped for Arctic work are the means proposed by the Norwegian Government for searching the northern wastes for traces of the lost dirigible Italia and its personnel of eighteen. ■While ever j’ radio in Norway and Russia, particularly in Siberia, strained every attention to catch some radio word from the Italia, nothing was heard. AM sorts of rumours are current in Oslo regarding the fate of the airship, but ah' have lacked confirmation. . M. Cesa.re Sabelli, the Italian flier Who is preparing in New York for the New York-Rome flight, announced that he would hop off at noon on May 29 for the Arctic to aid in the search of the lit alia, unless word 1 of its safety was received before "then. He plans t-o* fly direct to Spokane, (then to Point Barrow, Alaska, from' there across to the vicinity in which it might be expected to find the Italia.