The Archive · 1928

CREW OF ITALIA ALIVE

Wireless Message: Received by Base-ship: Provisions by Aeroplane: Flying Boats Unable to Land King's Bay, Spitzbergen, June 9.

'The Citta di Milano has received wireless message from the Italia defining her position as 80 degrees 46 minutes North, 22 degrees East, and reports that' all aboard the Italia are alive, Oslo, June 9.

It is thought unlikely that the airmen going to the rescue of the Italia will be able to land as their flying-boats cannot alight on ice, but they will be able to drop provisions to General Nobile and his companier Experts believe that it will be very dificult for an ordinary steamer to force its way to the eastern end of North East Island, where the Italia is stranded, Owing to the interest in the mat. for the prohibition of the Sunday papers has been the occasion is considered to exceptional. jured members of the crew of the Ttalia in the course of a fight or tivo suffering from frozen limbs. Reuter.

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