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Show NOBILE, CRIPPLED, IS SOBRY HE WAS SAVED, i KINGS EAY, SPITZBERGEN, July 11 (UP Copyright) General Umber to Nobile, crippled from injuries in-juries he received when the diribl-ble diribl-ble Italia crashed, wishes now to be back at the little ice encampment! with four members of his crew an encampment from which he was rescued by Lieut. Einar-Faal Lund- j borg. Saved Against His Will The Italian explorer recounted the complete story of that last flight pf the Polar craft of the sudden sud-den landing on an ice floe off Spitzbergen; of the tortuous hours spent by the survivors as they await ed rescue and finally of how he was saved against his own admonitions. admoni-tions. That account was made public pub-lic exclusively through the United Press. He said he left the ice encampment encamp-ment because Lieut. Lundborg insisted in-sisted that the others would be rescued res-cued immediately. Now one of that group left there has died. The others four are desparing of rescue and Nobile says he is sorry that he ever left them behind. Nobile winced with pain as he spoke. His right forearm is swollen swol-len from a fracture and he is suffering suf-fering from a broken leg. He said he set the leg himself, using splints made from the wooden parts of the i smashed gondola. Ten men were landed on the ice floe when the dirigible crashed. One died within a few minutes after af-ter the crash. Six sailed away in the envelope of the craft, never to be heard from again. Three otners who had landed land-ed with Nobile walked away from the, encampment and now are given giv-en up as dead. Natale Ceccioni died on the ice floe later. Nobile is Feverish The story of the crash of the ' dirigible as told yesterday by the United Press and the stranding or j these men caused Nobile much mental men-tal anguish. He plainly was feverish. fever-ish. He told how the nine men who survived sur-vived after the crash, lay in a tent that was not sufficiently large for all of them. They lay one on top of the other to keep warm. He told how their only food, besides pem-mican, pem-mican, was bear meat and that all the group suffered from indigestion from the half cooked meat. And he added a suggestion as to the possible fate of six men who sailed away in the envelope of the craft. He recalled that the first bear killed was found to have eaten parts of paper and canvas from the dirigible. |