Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-11 | Page 8 | Cat. Amundsen Wires Friends

CAPT. AMUNDSEN WIRESJFHIENDS Arctic Explorer Believed Ice-Bound Ice-Bound on Ship Near Siberian Coast COPENHAGEN. Nov. 11. Caitulu Ronld Amundsen, Arctic explorer, has sen! the following Ulcgram to tho Herllngske Tldende from East Cape, Biboria bearing date of August 13: "We sailed from Nome immediately after my wire rf August S with only three nil n ;cs ilu- others claimed washes of 300 sterling monthly. Tin- following fol-lowing day we were held up by bach Ice In Behiiuj; sea. All aboard well."' Tho foregoing Is the first dlrOjcl mt-sage from Captain Amundsen since he set out on his Polar expedition from Nome. Alusku, in the ship Maude Five weeks later Information reached Nome that the famous ship had become wedged in the ice 20 miles off Cape Searge. 22 miles northwest of Nome, on the Siberian coast. The reports said ihe Ice was ten feet hich about the vessel. East Cape, Siberia the point from which the explorer sent his telegram to the Copenhagen paper, is .(limit l To mile northwest of Nome and Is on tin-Uchring tin-Uchring straits