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Show ANOTHER ANDREE "MESSAGE" Questionable Tale Comes From the Ural Mounta ns. Stockholm, Dec- 3. An engine driver named Detke has written to the Swed-ish-Noregianministcr at St. Petersburg a letter in which he says that he found in the vicinity of the Ural Mountains a bottle containing two papers, one of which bore the following message, written in French: Andree's balloon has crossed the Ural Mountains. (Signed) Andree." The other paper, inscribed in Russian, Rus-sian, was as follows; "Give this letter to the consul or to the police." The balloon Eagle, with Professor Andree and two companions; String-berg String-berg and Frankle, in the car, left Dane's island of the Spitzbergen group on July 11, 1897, in an attempt to 1 cross the pole. Since then no definite news of the aeronauts has been received receiv-ed beyond a message found attached to a, carrier pigeon, found by the whaling ghip Falken, which arrived at Copenhagen Copen-hagen on Sept. 2. The message read: "July 13, 12:30 p. m. Lat. 82.2 N. Long. 12.5 E. Good voyage eastward. All well." |