LOST IN GREENLAND'S GREAT WHITE WASTES

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6541, 4 May 1931, Page 7

LOST IN GREENLAND'S GREAT WHITE WASTES

Search for Searchers

DESPERATE EFFORTS TO FIND COURTAULD

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 9.20 p.m.

REYKJAVIK (Iceland), May 2,

Tho airman Ahrenberg left for Angmagsalik, returning later owing to fog. The Odin’s aeroplane has returned here owing to defective engines.

A Copenhagen message states that after a vain attempt to reach Courtauld by sleighs, Watkins, loader of the British expedition, and two companions, with only a few provisions, set out from tho base a fortnight ago and liavo not been heard of since. It is presumed they are roaming the icy' sheet in the centre of Greenland. Meanwhile, Hatton and Cousins feverishly repaired their Moth plane for the purpose of the search for Courtauld. They left Angmagsalik on Saturday morning to seek Watkins and his companions.

LONDON, May 3

The Courtauld family so far has spent £BOOO on rescue expeditions, so Mr 3. Courtauld told the Evening Standard in an interview. When in midocean on the way home, she and her husband wirelessed to tho expedition at the base: “Spare no expense to save Augustine, our son.”