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OFF TO THE POLE. DEPARTURE OF THE ITALIA. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association). LONDON, May 23. A message from King’s Bay, Svalbard (Spitsbergen), states that General Nohili set out yesterday for the North Pole in the airship Italia in spile of the fact that the weather was a little unfavourable, lie will fly over north Greenland. General Nohili intends to he the first to alight at the Pole if the conditions permit a landing to he made. COEHAIVI’S PROGRESS. TIRED, DIRTY, AND HUNGRY. -;tv Telegraph.—Press Assn. —copyright.) (Australian Press Assn.—united Service.) LONDON, May 22. A message from Las Palmas, Canary Islands, says Sir Alan Cobham, who is engaged on a survey flight round Africa has arrived there. He will proceed to Casablanca, Spanish Morocco, to-morrow. lie said his party was tired, dirty and hungry, but otherwise fit. They encountered strong head winds from Port Etienne, French West Africa, 570 miles south of the Canary Island, where they spent Monday night at a local fort behind barbed wire fences, as a protection against marauding to:ill cam eo
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17410, 24 May 1928, Page 5
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