Oslo, Apr. 21.
According to an unconfirmed report in the newspaper "Dagblad," the airmen, Captain George Wilkins and Lieutenant B. Nielsen, have arrived at Spitzbergen from Alaska after a flight of 21 hours—Reuter. New York, Apr. 21.
The report of the success of Ca tain Wilkin's attempt to fly across the "Arctic regions from Port Bai row, Alaska, has been confirmed by a wireless message from the flier to the "Detroit News" from Svaibard, stating that he -reached Spitzborgen after 213 hours' flying.
As the crow flies, the distance approximately 3,100 miles.—Reuter.
London, Apr. 22.
Details of the 2,000-mile flight of the Australian explorer, Captain Wilkins, and Lieut. Nielsen across the North Pole are still lacking, Dut a message from Copenhagen quotes the explorer, Captain Amundsen, as saying, No flight has been made anywhere, any time, which in any way comparable with this Cable despatches from Oslo disclose the fact that Captain Wilkins and his companion left Alaska six days ago and that, after crossing the North Pole, their machine was forced to land on a desolate is north of Spitzbergen, where the aviators encountered' some Norwegian after a search lasting five days, Then they flew to Spitz bergen.
Captain Wilkins had twice previously attempted a flight across the Pole. He is a small bearded
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