EXPLORER RESCUED.
TO BE FLOWN TO HOSPITAL. (Independent Cable Service.) OSLO, Mav 21. Count Micard. a Norwegian explorer, was taken aboard a Nor-w-egifin resell© vessel to-day. H© will b© landed on the west coast of Norway and then flown to a hospital in Oslo. A message from Oslo on May 12 said that an expedition started that day from Aalcsund (Norway) to rescue the explorer Count Micard who, a few days ago sent a wireless message from his base in Greenland that he was weakening dailv from an unknown illness. The ship expected to reach the ice barrier in three or four days. She carried a ’plane which would try to land near the hut in which Count Micard was sheltering 125 miles away.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 145, 22 May 1939, Page 8
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124EXPLORER RESCUED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 145, 22 May 1939, Page 8
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