'Italia’ Communicates With World

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6632, 11 June 1928, Page 8

'ltalia’ Communicates With World

Constant Touch Being Kept by Radio With ‘Citta di Milano’

Airship Broken to Pieces Oft Franz Joseph Land, but Nobile Wirelesses Crew Well Awaiting Help ■ ustralian Press Association—United Service. Received Sunday, 11.5 p.m. ROME, June 10. A message from King’s Bay says that Holms’ machine was compelled to land on the ice at Mossel Bay owing to severe weather. The Hobby is also at a standstill owing to ice. Meanwhile the Italia continues ip constant touch with the Citta di Milano. General Nobile states that all are well aboard the airship, but hopes that help will soon be forthcoming. The Italia is ten. miles from land. Captain Roald Amundsen saysjsiat the rescue of the crew is possible only with dogs. Thoiign seaplanes would be useful for observations, they would be unable to land. Adolf Hoel, another authority on Arctic conditions, considers ice breaking as the only means of rescue. He thinks the Italia and crew may be drifting landwards as the ice goes westward.

twenty minute contact WITH MISSING AIRSHIP

Received Sunday 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Juno 8. It is stated that the Citta di Milano has apparently successfully maintained contact with the Italia for twenty minutes. Tho airship gave its position as twenty miles north of Capo Leigh Smith. “BROKEN TO PIECES.’ 1 , Received Sundav 5.5 p.m. LONDON, June 9. The Citta di Milano has sent a wireless message stating that it is now in jertain touch with the Italia which has broken to pieces. RESCUE SHIPS ENCLOSED IN ICE; UNABLE TO MOVE A.P.A. and United Service. Received Sunday 5.5 pun. KING’S BAY, June 9. No further message has been received from the Italia despite a nightlong vigil But the wireless operator thinks that in the earlier messages he could recognise the style of the radio telegraphist of the Italia. Ho believes the messages came front Franz Josef Land. Tho steamers Hobby and Braganza, are enclosed in ice and are unable to advance. Most of tho experts at King’s Bay attach no importance to the reported messages from the Italia, received at Moscow. However, an intercepted message has been receivd on tho Italia’s wave length reading: “Storm, north west, 5.0.5., S.O.S. Peterman.’’ This the relief committee regard as an indication that the message was from Peterman Land, a hundred kilometres north of the Franz Josef Archipelago. It is believed the whole of the Italia’s crew are aliye.

A.P.A, and United Service. Received Sunday 5.5 p.m. ROME, June 9,

SHIP AND DOG TEAMS ORDERED OFF TO RESCUE.

News received from the Citta di Milano states that she had maintained communication with the Italia for twenty minutes at seven o’clock, Greenwich time, last evening, giving bearings about twenty miles north of Cape Leigh Smith on tho eastern extremity of North-oast Spitsbergen. The Citta do Milano immediately instructed the steamer-Hobby to try and approach tho place, and .also ordered dog teams in charge of experts to proceed. overland. Messages were also picked up at King’s Bay that the commander of the Citta de Milano was confident the messages were genuine, but requesting the operating transmitter to give recognition signals. AMERICA APPEALS TO SHORT WAVE OPERATORS TO KEEP SILENT. Received Sunday 11 p.m. WASHINGTON, June 9. Judge Robinson, chairman of tho Federal Radio Commission, has issued an appeal relative to the dirigible Italia in the name of humanity. V “According to official advices received by the Navy Department, tho Italia, in command of General Nobile, now lost in tho Arctic, is equipped with short-wave radio transmitter operating on a 33 metro wave length, equal to nine thousand kilocycles, with which General Nobile is undoubtedly attempting to communicate with tho world. Ab radio professionals and amateurs in tho United States operating within five hundred kilocycles of the Italia’s frequency are therefore requested to maintain absolute silence as an aid to tho dirigible in its presumed efforts to establish a contact with the outside world.”