MEW THEORY AS TO THE FATE OF ANDRE.
w —•— V ' A cab'e to the " Son" from London says:—The lapse of three year* which Andre, who start*d for the North Pole v' in a balloon, fixed as the extreme limit • ( of his return, has revived interest in p- hu' fate. A Norwegian captain of t much Arctic experience has a theory J which is interesting. He says it is a t : - fact, which is probably fami'iar to all! Arctic exploiers, that when there is ' the slightest humidity of the atmosphere masts aod sails of vessels are coated thickly with ice. When Andi e * started wet Bnow was falling, and the balloon would soon be coated with ice. Its buoy accy would be overweighted I and it could not remain long a'oft. ■ 'Tha wind would carry it in the dircotion of Franz Jowf Land, between K which and Nova Zambia it would pro- , < bably fall into the sea. This captain t says that the wreck ultimately may jf • ba found on one or the other of these
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 210, 11 September 1901, Page 4
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