THE ITALIA

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 78, 28 June 1928, Page 6

THE ITALIA

FATE OF THE :CREW. NOBILE'S ACCOUNT OF DISASTER. ~, , OSLO', June. 26. General Nobile's. detailed, account throws light on the fate of the crew aboard the Italia's hull. .After the disaster, he says',, jjie watched the dirigible sail six miles. Later, he- saw a column of smoke risking in the direction of the airship's drift- This he attributes to the.firing, of the airship's pertoi...tanks or oil fallen from the airship.

When the gondola hit the ice, the impact whs taken by the engine in front of the car, where Pomella, the chief engineer, was placed, Nobile adds. Pomella suffered concussion; and died. He was an hono.uraFie burial.

■The American .woman who hired the Hobby for the purpose of hunting in the Greenland, lJus planed the vessel at the. disposal of the Norwegian Government, states an Oslo message. The steamei! is to go to the east coast of Spitsbergen to search for Amundsen. General Nobile urges that the search for the party with the hull or the Italia, be'carried out within'a triangle with its apex at the r.fjot where the gonrP.h party, is now ma rioned and with a maximum distance to the base of the triangle of •">» miles. Three aeroplanes -ire ready to carry out a search on these lines as soon as the weather is favourable. General Nobile states that Malgren and his riirty had provisions for forty days.,They had instruments and' mips but no tent .or firearms.