AIR SEARCH IN ARCTIC.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20863, 4 May 1931, Page 9

AIR SEARCH IN ARCTIC.

FOG DELAYS AHRENBERG.

OTHER MEN NOW LOST.

MOTH LEAVES ANGMAGSALIK. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received May 3. 8.45 p.m.) LONDON*, May 3. A message from Reykjavik, Iceland, says the patrol boat Odin lias reached the icefield and found a suitablo landing place for tho aeroplane in which Captain Alirenberg is flying to search for Mr. A. Courtauld, the member of the British air survey expedition, who is lost, in Greenland.

Captain Ahrenherg left Reykjavik for Angmagsalik, but returned later owing to fog. The Odin's seaplane has returned to Reykjavik owing to a defect in her engines.

A message from Copenhagen states that after making a vain attempt to reach Mr. Courtauld by sledges, Mr. Watkins. leader of tho British expedition, with two companions, carrying only a fewprovisions, set out from the base a fortnight ago and havo riot been heard of since. Presumably they arc roaming on the ice sheet in tho interior of Greenland.

Captain Lemon has sent a wireless messago saying Mr. Watkins' party should now 1)0 in the immediate neighbourhood of tho Greenland icecap, where Mr. Courtauld is lost. Meanwhile other members of the expedition, Messrs. Hatton and Cousins, feverishly repaired the Moth machine for the purpose of a search for Mr. Courtauld. They left Angmagsalik on Saturday morning, and will also search for Mr. Watkins and his companions. Mr. Courtauld's family have so far expended £BOOO on tho rescue expeditions, said Mrs. Courtauld in an interview with the Evening Standard. When they wero in mid-ocean coming homeward she and her husband sent a wireless message to the expedition at, the base saying: "Sparc no expense to save our sun Augustine."