CALL FROM THE ARCTIC.
ITALIA'S LOST CREW. AID DESPERATELY NEEDED. THREATENED BY BEAKS. NOBILI ASKS FOB ARMS. VIOLENT STORM RAGING. (Received June 18. 11.45 "p.m.) United Service. COPENHAGEN, June 18. Advices received by the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter state that the commander of the lost airship Italia, General Nobili, who, with six companions, is isolated on the ice-pack north of North East Land in the Arctic, has sent out by wireless an S.O.S. call. General Nobili's message says a violent storm is raging around tho marooned party. Ho asks for arms and ammunition with which to keep off the Polar bears which are now threatening the party. A message from Oslo, Norway, says tho Italia's supply ship, the Citta di Milano, reports that Captain Riiser Larson flew over the spot where General Nobili had last indicated his position. He saw nothing, but soon afterwards General Nobili wirelessed that he had seen the aeroplane. He gave his party s present position as 80 degrees 33 minutes north, 27 degrees 12 minutes east.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19976, 19 June 1928, Page 9
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171CALL FROM THE ARCTIC. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19976, 19 June 1928, Page 9
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