DASH INTO ARCTIC

Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1928, Page 9

DASH INTO ARCTIC

NOBILE RESCUE ATTEMPT AMUNDSEN OVERDUE BACK. PARTY REPORTED SIGHTED TENSE WAIT AT KING ’S BAY By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian Press Association. Received June 20, 8.30 p.m. London, June 20. Authentic news from Captain Amundsen is anxiously awaited. He left Tromso at 4 o’clock on Monday afternoon and was due at King's Bay at 1 o’clock on Tuesday morning. The whole population waited in vain and it is How believed ho must have attempted to reach General Nobile’s party direct. The distance from Tromso to Foyn Island, where the Italia’s erew is marooned, is about 700 miles. The giant seaplane piloted by Captain Guilbaud, in which Captain Amundsen is travelling and in which there is the spare pilot Dietrichson, carries fuel for 2000 miles. It is therefore regarded as probable that he reached General Nobile and alighted between the ice floes to render assistance.

Tho public at Rome are buoyed up by the fact that there are ten machines within cruising distance of General Nobile, while a sledge expedition, an alpine chasseurs expedition and an icebreaker are all concentrating on Foyn Island. There are now 13 expeditions, representing six nations, participating in the rescue.

It is persistently reported from King's "Bay that Captain Amundsen descended hi open water cloeo to General Nobile’s party, whom he met. CHEMICALS TO MAKE DARK SMOKE RESCUERS STUDY. SPECIAL MEANS. Received June 21, 1.5 a.m. United Service. Rome, June 20. After abortive flights Larsen, Holm and Maddelena, commander of the Citta di Milano, have determined to study special means of locating Nobile, states an official message. The reports of the airmen showed extreme difficulty in picking out men among the mounds of ice and broken channels, on which the sun shines, making falsified shadows, giving the illusion of great visibility. Chemicals which will emit a thick smoke are being prepared. The aeroplanes will drop the chemicals where Nobile is thought to be in order that he may use them to guide the resellers.