MISSING POLAR EXPLORERS.
EVIDENCE OF A TRAGEDY. Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 30 A message from Moscow, via Christiania, says that the Russian expedition ssarchinc for two missing members of tho Amunsden expedition found at Cape Wild a letter from the missing men, dated November 10, 1919, stating that they had only sufficient food for 20 days, as Polar bears had destroyed their depots. Subsequently the expedition found the ashes of a fire, the remains of a charred human body, bullets, and other articles regarded as evidence that one of the missing men was dead. No trace was found of the other.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17979, 3 January 1922, Page 5
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