Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26
Sailor With Fixed Bayonet
on GangpIank Astonishes
0nIookers at Dock.
RESCUED MEN LEAVE
FOR ITALY TONIGHT
Swedish Relief Flyers Hold Scant
Hope for Amundsen and
italians.
By the Associated Press.

OSLO, Norway, July ga seaman
with fixed bayonet was placed on guard
at the gangplank of the Citta Di Milano
today, when the vessel docked at Narvik
with the survivors of the Italia dis
aster. Onlookers at the docks regarded
this move with astonishment.
When the ship arrived early this
morning comparatively few people were
on hand, although many had waited for
1t until late last night.
When the mooring rope was thrown
ashore no assistance was Forthcoming in
fastening the rope, and one of the crew
of the italian ship had to jump ashore
to do it.
Officials Absent.
No Norwegian authorities were on the
quay A representative of the Italian
legation at Stockholm greeted the sur
vivorS, and three Swedes who had taken
part in the sledge expedition to search
for Roald Amundsen's missing party.
The spectators had glimpse through
a portfolio of Gen. Umberto Mobiles dog
Titina. AS soon as the ships crew OBJ
served this the portfolio was ilnmedi-
ately covered. The guard was stationed
as soon as the gangplank was lowered.
None of the rescued men appeared on
the deck. Many American motion pic
ture photographers and foreign and
Norwegian journalists gathered on the
quay.
The survivors will continue their Jour-
ney to Italy by train this evening, and
special carriage will drive up by the
ships side to take them straight from
the vessel to the station.
Rescue Planes In.
The railway over which they will
travel passes only few miles through
Norwegian territory and then runs into
Sweden.
The italian rescue plane Marino I
arrived from TronSoe last night with
part of the Swedish rescue expedition
returning from SpitZbergen. The expe-
dition included the leader. Capt Torn
berg The Swedish flyers were well
coined enthusiastically by a great crowd.
The Marino is returning 10 Tromsoe
Immediately
The Swedish Navy planes OF the
Mobile rescue mission arrived in Stock
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representatives of the government and
a crowd Of people.
The chief of the expedition and
Lieut. Lundborg remained behind in
Narvik, where they had their first real
supper In six weeks.
Hold Scant Hope.
The Swedes thought that the possi-
bility of finding the six members of
the Italia crew which drifted away In
the balloon part of the dirigible was not
very great. Unless they were found and
rescued before September. 1t was be-
lieved all hope would be gone.
If the balloon drifted to Franz Josef
Land the party would not be without
food, as there are plenty of birds eggs
there and wood would be obtainable
for fires
That Roald Amundsen and his five
companions are with the balloon group
was regarded by the Swedes as merely
fanciful assumption.
The Swedish meteoTologist with the
expedition proposed that a reward of
10000 krona fabout So ,7O0) be offered
for any whaling ship that found the
body OF DIR. Finn Malmgren, Swedish
victim OF the airShip disaster There
are many whaling ships in the vicinity
OF Spitzbergen at present, and II was
believed that the reward would insure
thorough patroling of the Arctic with
in few weeks.
Four vessels are now exploring the
waters between Spitzbergen, Bear Is
land and Greenland in an effort to
ind the missing Anundsen party.
These waters have hitherto not been
reconnoitered thoroughly. most OF the
searching being done east Of Spitz-
bergen.
Comb All Waters.
The vessels are the Norwegian
cruiser Tordenskjold, the Norwegian
surveying vessel Michael Sars and the
French cruiser Strasbourg as well as
the dispatch boat Quentin Roosevelt
With the French and Norwegian
ships exploring west Of Spitzbergen and
the Russian Ice breaker Sedov ordered
10 explore the region around Franz
Joseph Land east Of SpitZbergen, the
entire waters on which the Amundsen
plane may have come down will be
combed
The sealer Hobby. which was placed
at the disposal of the Norwegian gov
ernment by Miss Louise BOYD of San
Rafael, Calf, who had engaged II for
n hunting trip 10 Greenland, will soon
pass through Htnlopen Strait In search
OF the stiil missing men Of the Italia
expedition.
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