Capt. Lundborg's Story of Sufferings of Gen, Nobile's Party Marooned in Arctic and Awaiting Rescue Stockholm, July 9.
The leader of the Swedish expedition for the relief of the crew of the airship Italia telegraphs that the members of the party under Lieutenant Viglieri—from which General Nobile was rescued—are depressed and ill but they have provisions for} three months. He adds that the landing of light aeroplanes in their vicinity will only be possible when the temperature is below freezing point, but in any event such a land~ ing ix a very dangerous proceeding. The weather at present is often very] warm, No. trace has been found of Mariana and his party which started out to walk weres the floe-ice to land. This party had provisions for another week but had no weapons or They are supposed to have perished, The Russian ice-breaker Krassin]
25 miles of the Viglieri party. Tt ix now hoped that the Krassin will reach them.
The leader vf the Swedish relief] expedition proposes to xend back to Sweden the giant seaplane Upland, Me adds that the remaining Swedish naval seaplane must be overhauled, and the Italian seaplanes have been compelled to return to King's Bay, Spitzbergen, for an overhaul Reuter, Oslo, July 10.
Captain Lundborg describes with great eloquence the thirteen days of privation and despair he spent with the rest of General Nobile's party, which was taken charge of by Lieut.
Viglieri after the Generat had been rescued.
Every morning the sun shone but soon a terrible fog came up and enveloped the scene and the party could only sit and listen to the horrible noise of the iee-floes, as they crunched and crashed against each other.
There was much quarrelling among Lieutenant Viglieri's party, but the recriminations ceased for tthe time being in the evening when all, ina state of tense anxiety, listened to the news wirelessed from Rome.- The wireless reports of the difficulties being experienced by the Soviet ice-breaker Krassin caused the greatest depression among the members of the party.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.