Mr. Bridgeman Not to Contest Oswestry Again London, Aug. 31.
Mr. W. C, Bridgeman, the First Lord of sre Admiralty, has informed the executive of the Oswestry (Conservative Association that he-will mot be a candidate at the next election owing to ill-health Reuter, less Exploration of Queen Victoria Land Oslo, Aug. 30.
'The Admiralty announces that the sealer Hobby, which is still searching for the missing members of the crew of the airship Italia and for Captain 'Amundsen and Major Guilbaud, who have not been heard of since' they set out to rescue the castaways, having fruitlessly explored Queen Victoria Land, proceeded to Franz Joseph Land and Alexandra-Land, The Hobby encountered heavy! gales and high seas with the result that ice formed all over the ship's superstructure, covered tw acroplanes on deck'and put out of action the ship's wireless—Reutcr, Copenhagen, Aug. 30.
The newspaper "Aftenposten" has received a telegram from Harstad, in Norway, stating that the wreckage of Captain Amundsen's sero-plane has been found in the sea off the Lofoten Islands—Reuter Oslo, Aug. 20.
Ail inquiries so far indicate that. the ramours of the finding of the. wreckage of Captain Amundsen's aeroplane are baseless.—Reuter.
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