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PARTY SUPPLIED WITH FOOD. ’PLANE UNABLE TO LAND. NO NEWS OF CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright-.) (Australian Press Association—United Service.) Received 12.55 p.m. to-day. LONDON, June 20. A telegram received from the Citta de Milano announces that Maddalena has located General Nobile s party and supplied them with their immediate needs. He returned this afternoon to King’s Bay Maddalena states that General Nobile had complied with the advice conveyed by wireless and signalled as directed. Maddalena, flying at a height of five hundred feet, saw the camp and came lower, seeking a landing place, hut in vain, so he dropped six hundred pounds of foodstuffs, rifles, ammunition, and cigarettes The castaways were so overjoyed that they danced on the ice. Maddalena continued his flighty hoping to locate the wreck of the airship and the remaining castaways, but discovered nothing. Anxiety is now felt regarding the whereabouts of Captain Amundsen, wh-ose seaplane, it is feared, had to make a forced landing on the ice.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 June 1928, Page 9
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