AMUNDSEN’S EXPEDITION.
SEARCH FOR MISSING MEN. EVIDENCE OF TRAGEDY. By Telegraph.—Press 'Assn.—Copyrlgtt. Received Dec. 3d, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 30. A message from Moscow, via Christiania, says that a Russian expedition, which was searching for the two missing members of the Amundsen expedition, found at Cape Wiki a letter from the missing men, dated November 10, 1919, stating they had only sufficient .food for twenty days, as polar bears had destroyed the depots. Subsequently the expedition found the ashes of a fire and the remains of a charred human body. bullets and other articles, which ihey regarded as evidence that one of the missing men was dead. There was i*o trace of the other. —Reuter Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1922, Page 5
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116AMUNDSEN’S EXPEDITION. Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1922, Page 5
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