LOST IN GREENLAND

Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1931, Page 5

LOST IN GREENLAND

AHRENBERG RJ ACHES ICELAND. [United Press 'Association—-By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. ] LONDON, May 1. The Swedish airman. Captain Ahrcnherg, has landed at Rakjavitch, and lie leaves immediately he has re-fuelled for Greenland, in order to conduct a search Jor Courtauld, who lias been lost on his expedition in connection with the Greenland air route. LONDON, May 1. Captain Ahrenberg in a wireless message from Thor’s Haven, states that lie landed after four hours’ flight from Bergen. He is leaving immediately he lias re-fuelled.

AIRMEN RETURN. REYKYJAVIK, May 2 The airman, Ahrenberg, left fm Angmagsalik, but returned later owing to fog. Odin’s seaplane has returned here owing to defective engines. REYKJAVIK, May 2. A message from Captain Ahrenberg states that he has arrived at the paired boat “Odin,” and has also reached the icefield, and has found a suitable place for his aeroplane to take off. RESCUERS LOST. COPENHAGEN, May 2. A message received here states that, after a vain attempt to reach Courtmild by sleighs, Watkins, the leader of the British expedition, and two companions, with only a few provisions, set out from their base a fortnight ago, but have not been heard of since. It is presumed that they are roaming tlie ice sheet in the interior of Greenland.

MORE SEARCHERS. COPENHAGEN, May 2. The Hatton cousins have feverishly repaired their Moth plane for the purpose of a search for Courtauld. They left Angmagsalik on Saturday morning to seek Watkins and his companions. COURTAULD’S PARENTS. SPENDING LARGE SUM. LONDON, May .3. The Courtauld family have so far spent eight thousand sterling on the rescue expeditions, so Mrs Courtauld told the “Evening Standard,” in an interview. When in mid-ocean, on their way home, she and her husband wirelessed the expedition at the base: — 1 “Spare no expense to save Augustine, our son.”

THE ARCTIC.SEARCH. (Received 10.20 a.1t1.l LONDON, May 3. "Tliefe ils no Heed for alarm regarding the Watkins party,” says a British Arctic Air Expedition authority. “I am in direct touch by wireless with 'Angmagsalik, where everything is going according to plan. Watkins has five weeks provisions and we do not expect to hear from them as, yet, as. they have no wireless. Aeroplane communication is not yet established.” Major Sydney Cotton, Polish airman, is joining the search and at present > fitting his monoplane with extra petrol tanks, giving a range o? 1200 miles or ten hours. He sails on May 5 for Reykjavik whence he flies to Angmagsalik and will carry pockets of provisions ready to drop by parachute, each sufficient for a man for a fortnight enabling him to succour either Courtauld qr the search parties. An Angmagsalik message states:--Ahrenberg has arrived covering five hundred miles of sea, crossing in hours.