DROWNED AT SEA
FRENCH POLAR EXPEDITION DISASTER VESSEL SUNK IN STORM Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright COPENHAGEN, September 16. (Received September 17, at 12.5 p.rn.) Dr Charcot, leader of the French polar expedition aboard the Pourquoi Pas, and the crew were drowned, with one exception, when a storm sank the vessel on the Iceland coast, on which 30 bodies have been washed up. Dr Charcot sailed for Angmagsalik in the present summer to bring back to France Robert Gessai and Michel Perez, who, with Paul .Emile Victor, intended to cross Greenland by sleigh and to carry out scientific investigations. Victor remained in Greenland. It is understood that Gessai and Perez were aboard the Pourquoi Pas.
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Evening Star, Issue 22446, 17 September 1936, Page 11
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113DROWNED AT SEA Evening Star, Issue 22446, 17 September 1936, Page 11
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