Their food was divided into rations by Lieut, Viglieri. They had chocolate and cake in the morning, bear-flesh cut with scissors Jat noon' and corned-beef and cake in the evening. Their only luxury was a small supply of brandy and cigarettes, which had been dropped from the aeroplanes which attempted. their rescue. The cigarettes were message from Spitzbergen states that Captain Lundborg. tells a harrowing story of the terrible time he spent on the ice-lee with Lieutenant Viglieri's party. AMI the Italians, he says, were fever-stricken and occasionally behaved in strange manner.,'Signor Ceeeiani was very ill. The' food was scanty and unappetizinig and the ice conditions bad, itgbeing foggy and cold, The party tantalized to see and only a few miles away, which, however, it was impossible for them to Tei The Soviet ice-breaker Krassin la meeting with very difficult ice conditions but it is hoped that the Braganza will be able to reach the party.—Reuter, How Injured Leader was Rescued Stockholm, July 10.
The newspaper "Stockholms Dag-lad" to-day publishes a message front Spitzbergen giving a moving account of the Swedish Captain Lundborg's experiences in rescuing General Nobile and his own sub sequent compulsory sojourn with the remainder of the party from ill-fated airship Talia, when hig *plane overturned on an'ice-floe while he was making another attempt to rescue General Nobile's Captain Lundborg says that the weather was fine when he and Lieutenant Sehyberg started off on June 24 to attempt the rescue of General Nobile. They circled over General Nobile's camp several times and then Ianded a short distance from it, but the march to the camp was most difficult.
While Captain' Lundborg was with the party a terrible tempest, with rain and fearfully bitter cold weather, raged for six days. He says that Lieut, Viglieri and his companions were growing steadily weaker during this period. Al of them had fever and some even showed signs of mental aberration.
The wireless operator, Signor Biagi, despite the fact that he was suffering from fever, got up from his bed every day to send and receive! messages.
When news arrived that a Moth Jaeroplane had reached Spitzbergen and would make a fresh attempt to land and rescue the members of the party, the latter took fresh heart and worked for two days and a night to prepare a landing-place. This they found very difficult owing to the softness of the ico,
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