CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 July 1928, Page 7

CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN.

SEARCH jfiJSl NIG Ail AND ON ED. EXPEDITIONS BEING WITHDRAWN. Hi.iii il I’re-is Associatro* -Oy Electric Telegraph v.<ipy right-) (Aiislralion ISv.-s Association.) STOCKHOLM. July 22. It now appears certain that Captain Raoul Amundsen has been lost, in a vain attempt to rescue General Nobile's oiew. Sweden has completely withdrawn from the Spitsbergen rescue work, ami the Admiralty has telegraphed Ciaptain Torniberg to-dav instructing ■ him to carry out previous instinotions concerning his recall. Likewise the Norwegian cruiser has abandoned the search and is returning to northern Non iway. The commander of the vessel states the waters- between Troamso and Bear Island, as well as on the east coast of Spitsbergen. have been minutely searched, and there is not the least sign of the aeroplane or crew. It is believed that further search is useless-. The opinion is becoming genera! that the seaplane was forced to descend in the sea owing either to fog or to engine trouble and there met its fate. Arctic shippers who were thereabouts on the day the flight began declare the sea was of the roughest. It is considered certain that the seaplane nosedived. was swanuped and sank with all aboard.