FINDING OF ANDREE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 360, 3 September 1930, Page 7

FINDING OF ANDREE

DR. HORN’S REPORT. POSITION OF THE BODIES OSLO, Sept. 1. Dr. Horn interviewed said: “I first discovered cooking apparatus marked with the name of a Swedish firm. After a search I found the 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-cover-ed cleft, while the third was found in a canvas boat filled with ice.” Captain Groendal, of the ship Hanseatic, states that he visited White Is-

land where the bodies were found three weeks before the Horn party 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 Nobile.

Dr. Horn expressed the opinion that Andree and his companions died of coid and exhaustion after a long mrreh over the ice. They had not time to build shelter and could not have lived long after reaching White Island. Dr. Horn cannot positively say that the bodies arc those of Andree and his companions. The diary consists of only a few pages.