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Show ANOTHER ANDREE "MESSAGE Queitlouable Tata Comes From tha Ural Mounta ns. Stockholm, Dee- 3.An engine driver nanied Dotko has written to tho Swed-ish-Norcgianmlnlstcr ntSt. Petersburg a letter In which he says that ho found in tho vicinity of tho Ural Mountains a Uottlo containing two papers, one of which boro tho following message, written In French: Andrco's balloon has crossed tho Ural Mountains. (Signed) Andrce" Tho other paper, inscribed in Russian, Rus-sian, was as follows; "Glvu this letter to tho consul or to tho pollco." Tho balloon Eaglo, with Professor Andrco and two companions; String-berg String-berg nnd Franklo, In tho car, left Dana's Island of the Spltzbergen group on July 11, 1897, in an attempt to cross tho polo. SInco then no definite nows of tho aeronauts has been received receiv-ed beyond a messago found attached to a carrier pigeon, found by tho whaling ship Falken, which arrived at Copenhagen Copen-hagen on Sept. 3. Tho messago read: "July 13, 12:30 p. m. Lat. 82.9 N. Long. 12.5 E. Good voyage eastward. All well." |