Arctic Castaways

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 391, 27 June 1928, Page 1

Arctic Castaways

SWEDISH AIRMAN STRANDED

Still No Trace of Amundsen (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association.) Reed. 9.5 a.m_- OSLO, Tuesday.

A WIRELESS message from the Quest expresses the opinion that it is impossible to save the remainder of General Nobile’s party, also Captain Lundberg, for three or four weeks, after which it is hoped the ice will break up sufficiently for seaplanes to alight.

Hopes of finding Marino and his companions are fading, daily flights over the places they could have reached having disclosed no trace. Captain Lundberg, pilot of the Swedish seaplane Upland, who rescued General Nobile from the ice, is himself stranded on an ice-floe owing to the plane capsizing when he was returning to the other castaways. The Swedish Government has sent food supplies to the latter. The search for Captain Amundsen has not proved successful.

A message from Stockholm says arrangements are now being made to dispatch a Fokker seaplane, and also a de Havilland Moth, to the rescue of the Italia’s crew. The machines are being specially fitted to laud on small ice areas. It is reported from Spitzbergen that a Swedish mechanic is willing to make a descent with a parachute on to the ice-floe to assist Captain Lundberg to repair his seaplane. The latter has asked for spare parts to be dropped by means of a parachute.