Italia Long Overdue on Return to Spitzbergen: Fight with Storm: Aeroplane to the Rescue King's Bay, Spitzbergen, May 25.
The airship Italia is encountering trong head-winds on its return from the North Pole, but is expected to arrive here at noon to-day.
Oslo, May 26.
The Norweiian Goveenment has decided immediately to embark on measures for a search for the} Ttalia and its crew. The of Defence are consulting experts in this connect "A conference of leading Arctic explorers headed by Captain Roald Amundsen was held at the Defence Ministry to-day. Rilser Larsen undertook to investigate the sibility of carrying out a relief exe edition by means of acroplanes.—Reuter.
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