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D REPORT B ODY D REPORTED fOUND IN N NORTHERN RIH r Sf SEA A Advices of Death Received From Oslo Not Confirmed RESCUE HOPES FADE England Prepares to Send Planes to Search I LONDON July 2 AP-A AP Paris dispatch to the company that according to messages received from Oslo the body of Captain Roald Amundsen has been found in the sea off Nor Nor- way The report lacks official con con- OSLO Norway JUly 2 AP- AP j AP Re Reports orts stated to have ha come from Oslo that the body of 01 Captain il aR aId Amundsen has been found of off the coast of Norway Noray have no con con- here Neither the official Norwegian agency nor the newspaper Aften- Aften posten have heard of the report LONDON July 2 APi the elapse of 01 a fortnight since Captain Roald Amundsen flew from 1 Norway nto the Arctic wastes f Id in he for th n ot the tle dirigible Italia hope that he and his companions will wili be found alive by any of 01 the numerous expeditions hunting f for r hIm Is fast approaching the vanishing point This is all the mOre true because it It is known that the amous' amous x- x and his lad only two weeks weeks' supply of provisions and the fear Is naturally felt that they ar are face to face tace with death by bv starvation U if they survived anywhere any where here In the g a ten tel their plane came down PLANES PREPARED Notwithstanding this fear po powerful pow pow- erful British seaplanes are being fitted to take part In the search and will be sent to the north at the earliest possible moment When the last signals came from the Amundsen plane which was piloted by the French aviator Gil- Gil baud it was was' supposed to be in the vicinity of 01 Bear Island but searches searches' in that region have been without result Determined to do everything possible pos pos- sible expeditions arranged by several several sev- sev eral nations Norway Italy Sweden and Russia have been helping or Continued on page pageS 5 FAMED EXPLORER FOUND DEAD OFF NORWAY REPORT I 1 from P page age 1 are on their wa way prepared to comb every likely part of the Arctic in an n effort to save perhaps the best known of all the figures in Arctic exploration Aid Is also being extended by private private vate American initiative Miss 1 Louise Boyd Bord has placed at the rosal of the NorwegIan government for the Amundsen search the steamer Hobby which she had hired for a hunting trip oft off Greenland Green Green- land The Hobby sailed north from July 1 for the waters around Bear Island EXPEDITION ON WAY Amundsen's own country countr Norway Nor Nor- Nowa wa way is naturally snaking making res rescue ue efforts efforts ef- ef forts or of the most vigorous kind and an expedition organized by popular subscription under is already already al- al ready well On the way north and will make search to the eastward of SPitzbergen J Unfortunately much valuable ble time has been lost by the airplane searching parties which have been helplessly tied up for considerable periods by the preval prevalence nce of fog By CLYDE United Press Special Correspondent COPENHAGEN July Long 2 smoldering criticism of the flight of the dirigible Italia to the north pole broke today with the apparent disappearance of the Rus sian rescue aviator Babushkin eighth man to fail to return from froman an ah attempt to aid the airships airship's crew Peter famous Danish explorer voiced the resentment felt by most Scandinavian explorers when he said In an article In the newspaper that the Italia I never should have started for the north pole because General Umberto Umberto Um- Um berto Nobile its commander lacked Arctic experience Nobile said had been warned not notto to start Included in criticism was the fear that the disaster which overtook the Italia Ha-Ha might have hurt the future of Arctic exploration exploration ex- ex by airship LOSS OF LIFE But principally he like others was concerned with the probable loss of life already incurred by bythe bythe the heroes who went to aid the crew and the fact that scores ot of the best Arctic explorers still are risking or 01 a are e ready to risk their lives on the slightest sU chance ot of brInging back to the ordinary ordinary or- or world the remaining men of the sixteen who went out with the Italia Of the sixteen men who started with the Italia only one has returned returned re- re turned to General civilization Umberto Umberto Um- Um berto Nobile its commander One man was killed when the Italia IlaHa crashed Six were carried away with the wrecked airship to almost certain death Nine were left stranded on the ice Of these three started out to try to wall waIl to land The remainder under NobUe Nobile pitched camp on the ice Lieutenant Paal Einar-Paal Lundborg Lundberg flew to the ice camp and rescued Nobile Returning for another passenger pas pas- his plane crashed and he was stranded RUSS FLIER LOST Roald Amundsen Lie Lief Dietrich Dietrich- sen Commandant Rene Guilbaud and three others started out to aid the Italia crew cre In a French air air- plane They disappeared and never have been heard from The eighth man to go out and fail to return is the R star Babushkin who left the ice breaker Malign Friday to fly to the Nobile camp STOCKHOLM I JUly 2 United The Press Russian ice breaker Krassin had advanced so tar far northward northward north north- ward today that It was thought though possible here she might reach before be be- I fore tomorrow the Italia ice camp campat off at and rescue the six men there Conditions w were re better as the giant Krashin pushed her nOse through the lamming jammIng Ice floes I ILO LO LONDON DO JUly 29 23 Two AP-Two large British seaplanes will shortly Join the international group of sear searchers hers who are seeking to find trace ot of Roald Amundsen noted Norwegian explorer r and his five companions In a French plane which took oft off from Norway two weeks ago today to assist in the Nobile relief work I NOBILE FEVER RIDDEN no ROME Jul July 2 AP Il said today that General Umberto Nobile intended to fly to the rescue of his comrades marooned on the i ice north of Spitzbergen but a recurrence of fever prevented him It appeared that the InjurIes to his leg and back were not healing heating heat heal ing as quickly as had been ex- ex pe He was sas still suffering from the effects or of his long stay on the Ice without medical attention KINGS BAY Spitzbergen July 2 Fog AP-Fog hampering the efforts of seaplanes a Russian icebreaker ice breaker brealer today was slowly forging Its way northward to tale take five tive members rs of the crew ot of the Italia Halla and a Swedish airman ot off an ice floe The breaking up of the ice while it added to the peril of the castaways also increased their chances ot of rescue Fliers turned back by fog reported that a strong wind from the east had opened up wide canals The Russian ice icebreaker breaker brealer Krassin passed the eightIeth eight eight- parallel and was making Its way through a loosened ice pack j off West Vest Spitzbergen There was hope that It woo would reach the tho scene of the Italia disaster north ot of Foyn island some time today The two Italian seaplanes piloted VI- VI by Majors Maddalena and Penzo and the Swedish flying boat Upland tried to fly to the marooned marooned ma- ma men yesterday est They ran into a heavy fog near Cape Leigh Smith to t the south of the survivors sur- sur ivors and were forced to turn back The small Finnish plane which had been equipped with skis to rescue the men made no at- at to fly to them when n weather wea- wea ther lher conditions were found to be unfavorable |
