AMUNDSEN RESCUE IS DOUBTFUL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20190, 5 July 1928, Page 7

AMUNDSEN RESCUE IS DOUBTFUL

ALBION REPORT IS UNCONFIRMED ( By Telegraph—Per Press Abad. —Copyright ] [ Australian Presc Assn. ] TROMSO, July 4. Received July 5, 1.30 a.m. The report that Captain Roald Amundson has been rescued is unconfirmed. The Albion says that '.e news has reached it via England. 7?" FIRST REPORT , LONDON, July 3. A message from Tromsoe reports that Captain Amundsen has been rescued near the south coast of Spitzbergen by the Albion, which Is proceeding to Tromsoe. There had been no news of Captain Roald Amundsen, -who, with Commander Gilbaud and Lieutenant Districhson, had been missing for several days after attempting to fly from Tromsoe (Norway) to Spitzbergen to join in the rescue work for over a fortnight. ~~ If the report as to his rescue proves correct, and there seems no reason to

doubt it, there will be much rejoicing as hope had been in many quarters abandoned. BRIGHTER CHANCES GENERAL NOBILE’S PARTY. [ Per Press Association 1 GISBORNE, July 4. A radio broadcast from the San Francisco Examiner picked up by Mr O’Meara states: 44 A more optimistic view of the prospects respecting General Nobile’s party are held as a result of the latest communications received officially in Rome from thg commander of the Citta di Milano. Reporting by wireless the five survivors and the Swedish aviator, Lundborg, who comprise the marooned party, state that the falling temperature has increased the chances of landing small ’planes on the ice, also that radio conditions have greatly improved. The newspaper Trever states that although General Nobile had intended to fly to the rescue of comrades a recurrence of the fever had prevented him. It appears that the injuries to his leg and back arc not healing as quickly as expected. He is still suffering from the effects of his long stay on the ice without medical attention. Commander Romagna, of the Citta di Milano, and the Swedish and Finnish authorities agree that three seaplanes—two Italian and one Swedish should fly together on the earth as soon as the weather cleared. They would keep in sight of one another so that in case one was forced down the others would be able to assist it. Moscow reports state that another aviator has to be added to the list of missing, nothing having been heard of the Soviet pilot Babushkin since he hopped off from the icebreaker Maligin on Friday.