WILKINS'S ADVICE
Wireless messages received from Rome announce that three of the Italia’s crew are already making their way on foot toward the north coast of Spitzbergen, where they hope to locate the Hobby.
The message adds that the crew is encamped on the ice, with fairly ample provisions. Sir George Wilkins, who has arrived in London from Paris, considers it is only possible to carry on by airplane, as the ice is too thick to allow a ship through, and insufficiently firm to allow of a sledge party. The airplanes in the first place should make a reconnaissance, and, if it were found impossible to land, food could be dropped. The Italia’s crew, in the meantime, could prepare a landing place, and the airplanes could rescue them one by one.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 377, 11 June 1928, Page 9
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131WILKINS'S ADVICE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 377, 11 June 1928, Page 9
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