AIRMEN COMPLETELY ISOLATED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 16 April 1928, Page 5

AIRMEN COMPLETELY ISOLATED

RELIEF A I'RORLEM

(Received IGlit April. 3.50 a.m.) NEW Y(>l!K. 14lh AprilTl utslatiding fact of a day fill''' with reported efforts to reach the Pre men's tilers, is thai thev are as coin pletelv isolated as if at the North Pole Thev are unable lo get out an.l nolle I; able to reach Green ley Island. The ice liilller Moiitcalm may fief

there even before aerial efforts can prove successful.

All hough one machine has -tailed from Canada and others may start to morrow a really serious efforl to semi a plane lo Labrador now rests with Commando Byrd. who has been strongly urged in ll\- one of his ski equipped 'planes to Oreenley. He, however, expressed grave <|ouh(.s as Lu his ability to land his machine there without doing it serious damage, thus in no way remedving the situation.

'The prospects of the Bremen being repaired and continuing the flight, unaided, arc extremely small. 'There is neither equipment nor petrol at (been lev Island.

Efforts to charter sealing steamers at Newfoundland to make the trip to (ireenlev Island have been tinsuccess fnl. the skipper.'! declaring that it was ton great a risk lo trust their vessels and crews to Ihe dangerous ire jams. and expressing scepticism as to Ihe Montcalm's ability to overcome the ice.