TRIBUTES TO DR. NANSEN
XOiPEEPv AMONG GREAT VIKINGS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, May 14. Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, whose death occurred yesterday, had' been ill since March with phlebitis. Yesterday he was attacked by paralysis of the heart and died in a few minutes. Newspapers pay a tribute to nis achit ement as explorer, scientist and humanitarian. The Daily Telegraph says there would bo found no peer among ths greatest of the Vikings.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1930, Page 7
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