ITALIA DISASTER

Wairarapa Age, 21 March 1929, Page 6

ITALIA DISASTER

I WHY H3BILE WAS RESCUED i FIRST. EXPLANATION BY SWEDISH AIRMAN GENERAL SHOULD NOT BE BLAMED United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, March 19. -1 Captain Lundboirg, the 'Swedish aviaeitor who rescued Genera;]: Nobile* from - the Italia wreck, has arrived. Ho said: u “ General Nobile should not. be blamed □ for being the first to be rescued. If l- anyone should be, I should, be the one. b I insisted that he be saved. Captain ! Tornberg, Chief of the Swedish expe.diilion and an officer in the Royal ‘SwedI ish Air Force, ordoredi me to> bring i' back General Nobile, because he felt j that the general would lend experience II and knowledge of the conditions to help us rescue the other pissing meme t-ers of the dirigible Italia’s crew. ’’ — n (Australian Preps Association.) y (Both before the inquiry and in the c report of the Italia Commission Generc al Nobile was blamed for being the h first to be rescued of the .survivors of t the Italia marooned on the ice. The ,t Commission ’.s report, whiebj has been ti submitted to Signor Mussolini, stated that the lass of the Italia was due to p faulty handling by General Nobile, the [. composition of the crew, and the use r . made of it. The conduct of Mariano (j and Zappi .described as praisewor!lS‘thy, ana Nobile’s acceptance of prior,r ity of rescue as unjustifiable and ex-

plicable only by his physical and moral depression and the Swedish airman, Lundberg’s, urgent invitation.)