Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-10
ITALIA CREW
ILL, RESCUED
FLIER AYERS
Signs of Insanity Re-
ported; Little Hope
Held For Immediate
Saving of Party

STOCKHOLM, July 1o.-P)-The
five survivors Of the Italia are ILL
with fever and mos. Of them show
signs of partial insanity, according
to word received from the Swedish
rescue ship Quest today.
Little hope Is held for their imme-
date rescue. Their morale is low.
Lieutenant Einar-Paal Lundborg,
who was marooned on the ice near
Foyn island with them for 10 days,
said his stay was terrifying. They
had very little food and what he got
was rather unappetizing. They were
reprovisioned before he was rescued,
however.
Lundborg asserted all the sur
vivors were suffering from fever
aud most of them showed signs Of
mental alteration. Giuseppe Biogo,
radio operator, was suffering from
fever for the last two days before
Lundborg was rescued but neverthe-
less he arose at least twice daily 70
operate the wireless.
Mobile Story Don't Check
Since Lundborg was rescued last
Friday there has been no radio con-
tact with the maroonod men, ad-
vices from the Quest said.
Other details coming from SpitZ-
bergen conflict with reports of the
disaster given out by General Um-
berto Mobile. All kilograms from
the base ship Citta al MiIano. where
Mobile is. are being censored. No
body is allowed 10 telegraph in any
. ~~~--N Nsu1s,x uAA ell tale
grams 10 Rome are controlled by
Mobile himself.
IL was learned. however. that No
bile now SAYS the radio was eli
right from the first minute after
the dirigiblc crashed on May %.
Nobody can explain how the citts di
Milano and other stations were un-
able TO pick il IN until June 3. when
the base shin first announced that
IL had established communication
with the survivors.
General Mobiles mysterious state
ment about the unexpected fall Of
the dirigible and that the crew was
not p~reDared appeared to conflict
with the fact that there were SO
pounds Of provisions in the navi-
eating cabin for six persons. This
was held 70 indicate that measures
had been taken for a forced landing
otherwise the stores would have
been kept in the dirigible's interior.
Early Rescue Not Likely
Or. Finn Malmgren and the two
men who started afoot for land with
him had fifty pounds Of stores
when they started on May 80. They
had no and II was thought
that they ell persisted.
Hope for rescue Of the five ma
Tooned men appeared today 70 lie in
the Russian ice breaker Krassin.
This vessel found progfess through
the ice field slow and today was
25 nautical miles away from the
men. Eventually. says Captain
Thornherc, head 81 the Swedish res
cue mission. II ice conditions i'm
prove, the ship can reach the refu-
7 gees.
Prospects ~ rescue By air vas
believed 70 be d~Vindling. The Swed
ish leader recommended that the
large Swedish Junkers plane be sent
home.
A landing on the ice with a small.
sport plane is possible only when
the temperature is below freezing.
he thinks. ever then il is attended
by great risks At present the tenn
perature, because Of the cloudiness,
is above the freezing point.
The six men carried away in the
balloon part Of the Italia probably
we're killed by the explosion which
was observed by the marooned men
after the crash on the ice. he said.