THE ITALIA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 June 1928, Page 9

THE ITALIA.

WIRELESS MESSAGES CEASE. RESCUE EXPEDITIONS ON THE WAY V United Press Association —By Electric- Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 2.15 p.m. to-day. LONDON. June 13. General No,hile’-s wireless has ceased. Nothing was received throughout the night after the message detailing the disaster to- the Itai’iia. It is believed the accumulators are exhausted, and that nothing moire is likely to .be braird from the castaway®, but they will be able to receive messages l for some- time yet. Pack-ice carried them two-miles in two days, breaking up bp-re and there aii-d.' forming canails. Unfortunately the weather has undergone a bad change. A north-west gale is feared, accompanied by snow, which will further try the inadequately clothe cl crew, as w© ! 1 as imperilling the lives o-f the three men trekking to Cape' North. Are encouraging aspect, however, is that the relief expeditions are daily becoming mo-re numerous. The following expeditions ape now afoot: —Fin-1 ancT iis dispatching immediately two aeroplanes fitted with skate skids. Sweden, in addition to the help already offered, is dispatching a triplemot ore d Junkers aeroplane to Spitz-be-rgen on Thursday. The Russian icebreaker Mailyo-nvine, carrying an aeroplane, has left Archangel. _ The giant ice-breaker K-rassin -’eaves Kronstadt on Thursday. Italy’s gerat seaplane, 'Similar to tiiat used bv De Pinedo last year on the Atlantic flight, is expected ait Stockholm to-night and at King’s Bay to-morrow. The research -aeroplane, Domiewal, is also 'speeding to Spitzbergien from Norway. The fatuous steamier Quest, 10-a-dod with .supplies, left. Tromso to-night. . . Captain Rosquiist, a Finnish icebreaking expert, says that there -is the smallest possibility of an ice-breaker reaching the Ttni’in. before the end of July. Tlie only chains is the use at aeroplanes aboard ice-breakers. \ British United Press message from Berlin States that the non-partioiua--tion of America and Britian is causing comment. The “Berliner * Tagebla-tt wonder® why England, with an aerial stroii"Mi va-stlv superior to that of Norway and ,Sweden, is doing nothing.