ITALIAN FLAG TO BE PLANTED AT THE POLE
GENERAL NOBILE S PLANS By Cable.—Press Association.-—CopyrighU ROME, Friday. The programme for General Nobile's Polar expedition has been arranged. The airship Italia will leave Rome in April, bound for King’s Bay, Spitz, bergen. It will travel via Vjnice, Vienna, Prague, and Stettin.
By using King’s Bay as a base, General Nobile hopes to make at least 10 excursions over the Polar regions, and to effect a landing at the North Pole, where he will place the Italian flag.
The personnel of the expedition will be limited to Italians. Pressing requests from three Russian and two Norwegian scientists have been refused. —jC and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 282, 18 February 1928, Page 1
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