IN SEARCH OF AMUNDSEN

Taranaki Daily News, 7 July 1931, Page 7

IN SEARCH OF AMUNDSEN

GENERAL NOBILE’S QUEST

VOYAGE TO IRUDOLF ISLAND

ECHO OF ITALIA DISASTER

AMERICAN EXPERT THEORY

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Moscow, July 5.

General Nobile, the Italian explorer and commander of the ill-fated airship Italia expedition in 19'28, has booked a passage in the ice-breaker Maligin and is going to the Arctic to search. for Captain Raolcl Amundsen, the great Swedish explorer, who was lost while living to the aid of the Italia survivors.

An American explorer, Anthony Fiala, has propounded a theory that Amundsen may be alive on Rudolf Island, which the Maligin is visiting.

In 102 S the airship Italia, in a second attempt to fly over the North Pole, a feat which it had successfully achieved a few days previously, crashed on the ice and after leaving the undercarriage and eight men behind, was driven by the wind and was lost with the seven remaining members of the crew. After terrible privr’'on'- General Nobile and his companions, with the exception of a young Swede, Dr. Malmgren, who died of exposure, were rescued, but at the supposed cost of the lives of Captain Amundsen and. his pilot, who had set out by air to find the missing men.