Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-28
FIND BODY Of
A|RSHIP CHIEF
Body of Lieut.. Grenadau,
Commander of Dixmude,
Found, Paris Hears
IN SICILlIAN WATERS
No News is Received From
Rest of Crew of the ILL.,
fated ATship ].

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ed Press) The body of Lieuteral
Grenadan, commander OF the mi
ing dirigible Dixmude, has be M
found in Sicilian waters, it was " II
cially announced this morning. iii
The officers body was found b}l|
fishermen six miles from land OIL
Sciacca, Sicily, said a statement issu-
ed by the navy department.
Its discovery was reported by the
Italian maritime authorities to the
French naval attache at Rome, who
started Immediately for Sciacca.
The French light cruiser Mulhouse
and three torpedo boats are proceed q
ing to Sciacca.
ROME, Dec. 2S (By The Assoel
ated Press) A message received IL
the minister of marine frrJIfr-s5rff4--7.--
confirming the news of the identt-
ilcation of the body on the Dixmudess
commander, says a thorough search
along the coast nearby has yieldeh
no trace of any other body or of
any aeronautical material.
PARIS, Dec. 2S (By The Associ-
ated Press) AN official announce
ment made this noon said that the
dlrlgible Dixmude has been lost at
sea.
The receipt of a telegram from
the French naval attache in Rome
announcing that the body of Lien
tenant Grenadan, commander of the
missing dirigible, had been found in
Sicilian waters, caused all hopes OF
the safety of the Dixmude to be
abandoned. These hopes had flared
II 1a OF Il.
from In Salah that the Dixmude had
been seen floating helplessly oyer
the Sahara Desert, although lack of
official confirmation had caused
doubts to be cast upon the correct
ness of the news.
The Rome advices convinced the
officials there could be no possible
doubt as to the identity of the body
picked up, as Lieutenant Grenadan
wore an Identification tag attached
to his wrist on all his air trips.
Italian fishermen hauling in their
nets at the end of their days task
last evening brought the body to the
surface. After it had been extricated
from the meshes 1t was found to be
that of a French naval officer In full
uniform. 1t was rushed to Girgenti.
a small cove near Sciacca on the
northwestern shore of Sicily None
of the fishermen were able to read.
the Identification tag and the iden-
tity of the dead man was only made
a certainty when the mayor and the
school teacher of the village search
ed for bodies from the ill-fated air.
ship.
The fact that no vestige of wreck
age from the airship or other bodies
of her crew were found caused the
ministry of Marie to refrain from
giving orders as yet to discontinue
the search of the African desert for
| traces of the dirigible. The combing
of the Mediterranean, however, be-
tween Sicily and the coast of north
ern Africa, will be the foremost
branch of the search in the immedi-
ate future.
1t is surmised that Lieutenant
Grenadan, when he realized the di-
rigible was lost, may have instructed
his men to jump with their para
chutes and that he decided to re-
main on board the ship. which might
! have stayed aloft several hours, the
commander going down with herr
while some of the crew may have
descended in the wi1ds of northern
Africa.
The Dixmude had so officers aud
men on board when she left tho
Cuers-Pierrefeu airdrome, near Mar
seilles, on December Is fora 72-hour
cruise. She flew across the Medi-
terranean and over Algeria and Tun-
isia to the edge of the desert OF
Sahara and then turned towards
home. She was last heard from
directly on Friday, December 21 at
500 p. NJ, when she was about 80
miles south of Biskra.
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