Rome, July 23.
"We cannot help protesting against the anti-human and anti-Italian wave dashed upon the protagonists of the unhappy Polo enterprise," declared the Premier, Signor Mussolini, at a Cabinet. meeting here to-da Il Duce emphasized that an me quiry would not be held until every: thing had been done to find the remaining castaways and then the inquiry would be carried out in Italy by Italians "Any other suggestion," he asserted, "is absurd and offensive, and, if' anyone proposed it, it would' be immediately repelled.
The Premier, thanked those who had been engaged in the work of rescue, especially the crew of the breaker Krassin, and and sorrowfully saluted the Swedish scientist attached to the Nobile Expedition, Professor Malmgren, who lost his life whi'e trying to reach Cape North Major Zappi and Major Mari New York, July 24.
Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, the well-known airman who accompanied Captain Amundsen on two of hi Arctic flights, has volunteered lead an expedition to search for the missing explorer. He has cabled asking the American Minister at Oslo to arrange for an aeroplane to meet him at Bergen. From there he will fly to Tromsoe—Reuter.
Rome, July 24.
The Italia's base-ship Citta ai Milano has gone to Norway to land the rescued survivors of the ill-fated Polar expedition. It will then return to Spitzbergen to continue the search for the other missing persons.
Major Mariano's right foot has been amputated, but his health is. improving.—Reuter.
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