FLIGHT TO THE POLE.
ITALIA’S EXPERIENCES. ADVERSE CONDITIONS. IMPOSSIBLE TO LAND. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Austraflan Press Association.) (Received May 25, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, May 24. King’s Bay reports that the north-west gale was so adverse that General Nobili was unable to carry out his full plans at the Pole. It was impossible to land because the anchor would not have held. They could not drop the Pope’s wooden commemorative cross or the Italian flag. In a wireless message at li in tho morning they announced that they were flying over unexplored parts of North Greenland. On arriving at King’s Bay at midnight they found the city beflagged.
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17411, 25 May 1928, Page 8
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