ANDREE EXPEDITION.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18663, 3 September 1930, Page 2

ANDREE EXPEDITION.

FINDING OF THE BODIES. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright OSLO, September 1. Dr. Horn, interviewed, said: “I first discovered a cooking apparatus marked with the name of a Swedish firm. After a search I found a body, which was clearly identifiable as that of Andree, propped against a rock. One cheek was eaten away by bears. The second body was in an ice-covered cleft, while the third was found in a canvas boat filled with ice.” Captain Groendal, of the ship Henseatic, states that he visited White Island, where the bodies were found, three weeks before the Horn party. He landed to look for traces of the Nobile expedition, having a belief that the missing members would some day turn up in those regions. They found a tin box, some papers, and a tent pole, which all looked too old to be connected with General Nobile. Dr Horn, interviewed, expressed the opinion that Andree and his companions died of cold and exhaustion, after a long march over the ice. They had not time to build a shelter, and could not have lived long after reaching White Island.

Dr. Horn cannot positively say that the bodies are those of Andree and his companions. The diary consists of only a few pages.