POLAR FLIGHT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 June 1925, Page 5

POLAR FLIGHT.

; “‘IS'-Crg.- A' 'AKA- j : ' ", I - ’, ■ . Ji«»/ v ■-i '< •ii *'• 1/ AMUNDSEfi returns. fvM lgf ■g ;i/ jgjS'-i % At Waii4 ~ Failure to Reach Pole, ,v jl>i • \c.' . /, „!• 1 ::.! f*. ‘ '•

i: ‘‘ : * "‘p". Friday, 8.56' a.m.) . •»'> ;i "•;'/;v ■ ! , Vancouver, Thursday. -g 1 .Amvuidsen has t returned to Spiczbergtn. —-Reuter. . - ALL THE PARTY SAFE. , ■ V. ‘g ■■■'■> (Received Friday, 8.50 a.m.) !-Mi ; ••• < NEW YORK, Thursday. .ij . Tiie .North American Newspaper Alliance has announced that 1 ! word .Ms been received from King’s Bay, Spitsbergen, stating that : Amundsen .and his party returned safely. . ' ' gg'" ’ . Bernon Prentice, Ellsworth’s brother-in-law, stated that he .received ' ' wtfrd that all six members of the expedition have returned to Bpitz-" • -bcrgen. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn, ’ _ . mWj.* X -. . NEWS BY RADIOGRAM. , ii (Received j / v •• 1 i . -■■■' LONDON,' 1 jrhtfrfeflajr'. , The newts'-of Amundsen’s safety , e ame by radiogram Hdmdal, ( .andwas dated Spitzbergen, June.,lßth, stating: —“We arrived at King s Bay, all right, at one o ’clock this' morning. ’ ’ The message was signed by *. .Amundsen, Dieprieh on, Ellsworth, Eeucht'.Omda!, tind Russrlarsen.— Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. " i; ""•! •

BAYS SPENT ' ’ ' •■'- : 'g gg' j T " LONDON, Thursday. . In the course of a .statement Amundsen says that he ran .ijxto -a, .fog. he was' able to take s observations he found that he had,flown, 6_o ■miles, but • i ■V /" •'• •. . ■ !.' He descended at .one o’clock on,the .morning .of-April •water at Cjrqat Iceland, yrhere, planes were frozen m. •• g‘ He' spent .several days reconnoitring. “I .believe that there is lib la - -further north of. this §ide of the Norwegian Arctic Ocean, lie .s a _. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn../,

NORTH POLE NOT REACHED. , i ; i (Received Friday, H. 40 a^^- COTJVER) Thursday. Amundsen flew -orth for what he believed to be and descended into the water'amongst ice hummocks. The p_ . estimates B that he was one hundred miles from the Pole. ...... The expedition returned afjqot and saw no land. Bum