FUNERAL HONOURS.
FOR ANDREE ft HIS COMRADES. STEAMER TAKING BODIES HOME. STOCKHOLM, August 25. The corpses of Captain Andree and his companions have been plaieed aboard the Bratvaag, wrapped™ sail* cloth with salt. There are also three rifles, two oases of instruments,' harpoons and fishing tackle, Andree’s altimeter, a diary, and the remains of a bear. The Bratvaag is expected to roach Norway on September 10. (The bodies of Captain Andree and his two companions of the famous balloon flight for the Pole were found on Franz Josef Land, well preserved in the ice. The balloon left Spitzbergcn with the three aboard, with the idea of drifting to the Pole, and was never heard of again until the bodies were found recently by a Norwegian scientific expedition.)
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Wairarapa Age, 27 August 1930, Page 5
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127FUNERAL HONOURS. Wairarapa Age, 27 August 1930, Page 5
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