NEW THEORY AS TO THE FATE OF ANDRE
A cable to the " Sun " from London says:— The lapie of three years which Andre, who started for the North Pole in a balbon, fixed as the extreme limit of vis return, has revived interest in his fate. A Norwegian captain of much Arctic experience has a theory which is interesting. He says it is a fact, which is probably familiar to all Arctic explorers, that when there is the slightest humidity of the atmo phere masts and sails of vessels are coa ted thickly with ice. When Andre started wet snow was falling' and che balloon would soon be coated with ice. Its buoyancy would be overweighted and it could not remain long aloft. The wind would carry it in the direction of Franz Josef Land, between which and Nova Zembla it would probably fall into the sea. This captain says that the wreck ultimately may bb found on one or the other of these coasts.
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West Coast Times, Issue 12002, 30 August 1901, Page 4
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