NOBILE ALTERS PLANS FOR FLIGHT TO POLE
THREE MONTHS IN ARCTIC By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyriy* BERLIN, Friday. Two members of the Italian Air Force have arrived at Stolp. Pomerania, to prepare a landing place fo< General Nobile’s airship. The general has abandoned his plan of crossing the Alps and proceeding to Milan and Fiume, thence northward. The explorers now propose to tv main in the Arctic for three month* Their first flight will be eastward t<Franz Josef Land, then to Lenin Land 800 miles from Svalbard, Spitzbergeu The second flight will be to the North Pole, where they will explore both the east and the west. The third flight will be northward to Greenland to explore that portion of the Arctic where land is supposed to be. bu T the existence of which is doubtful.— A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 324, 9 April 1928, Page 11
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