Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-06-03 | Page 1 | Ice Breaker Starts Search for Lost Italia

0 I q y 4 Ice IceBreaker Breaker Starts Search For Lost I italia t ALPiNE SOLDIERS A ABOARD OAR VESSEL I Will Make Overland Trips From Various Points on Spitzbergen c CARRY A R R Y SLEDGES Expedition Equipped for Trip of Over Month Copyright 1928 by The Associated Associated Press KINGS BAY Spitzbergen June 2 AP Pausing AP-Pausing Pausing here only a few hours the ice breaker Braganza I sailed at 8 o'clock tonight for the I north on a search for the missing dirigible Italia and th the eighteen explorers of General Umberto Nobile's Nobile's No No- biles bile's polar expedition The steamer which is one of the best ice boats in Norway hopes to reach Mossel ba bay Day through H strait if ice conditions permit The departure was hastened by bythe bythe bythe the desire of the Norwegian 1 crew of the Braganza to take full advantage advantage advantage tage of good weather which was prevalent toda today Her lIer captain said that any postponement nt would mean unnecessary unnecessary addition to the risks which the expedition must run The laganza put in heie here today fUU fully equipped equipped for a a long long voyage Captain Svendsen and his crew of sixteen busied themselves Immediately Immediately Immedi Immedi- with the embarkation of fifteen fifteen fir fir- teen Italians who were transferred d from the Citta Di Milano base ship of the Nobile expedition CARRY SN SNOW W SHOES The Italians included eight ight Alpine Alpine Alpine Al Al- pine soldiers under Captain Sora a i radio operator and a doctor They took with them snow shoes reindeer reindeer reindeer rein rein- deer sleeping bags guns medical supplies tinned meats and other provisions It is the intention to land the Alpinists at favorable points so that they may proceed overland to Fjord The Braganza brought two dog sledges but no dogs so the men will drag the sledges The entire trip may last one week or it may be extended for a month or more depending upon ice conditions and whether traces are found of the Italia The ship will keep In touch with the radio station station station sta sta- tion at Green harbor by means of Its rather powerful wireless equipment This equipment Is strong enough to enable the Braganza to receive weather reports direct from soe Norway It has a sending ra radius radius radius ra- ra dius of miles An important item of the equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment Is a set of Spitzbergen maps including some special charts showIng showing show- show Ing ice conditions for the last thirty years rears These maps indicated that good ice existed in only eight of those years ears ICE ICE PILED UP Last weeks week's northerly winds forced the floes loes against the north coast toast of the archipelago and nd presumably presumably presumably pre pre- piled plIed the thc Ice into the mouths of the bays and How However However How How- ever the Braganza with her horsepower engine can penetrate almost any field of ice which Is not anchored to the bottom of the sea A condition of that sort scarcely is expected The second unit of the expeditions from outside which are being dispatched dispatched dispatched dis dis- dis- dis patched to Spitzbergen Is exp expected expect expect- ct- ct ed here tomorrow when Lieutenant Lieuten Lieuten- ant Luetzow Holm Is due to arrive on the sealer Hobby The lieutenant lieutenants is s bringing a Norwegian naval seaplane and considerable hope Is based ased on what he may be able to accomplish if tt weather conditions permit him to make effective surveys surveys sur sun veys from the ai air