Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-02
MOBILES
APTITUDE
ATTACKED
Danish Explorer Declares
Italian Lacked Polar
Experience.
LOS S ES RESENTED
Score of Lives Thought
Sacrificed in Efforts to
Save Crew.
BY OLE CAVJING
United Press Special Correspondent

by OLE "a v blNI
United Press Special Correspondent
COPENHAGEN. July 2.-Long
smouldcring criticism Of the flight
o., the dirigiblc Italia to the north
pole broke today with the disap-
Tcarance of the Russian rescue
rviator, Babushkin, eighth man tc
fail to return from an attempt to
aid the airship's crew.
Peter Freuchen, famous Danish
explorer, voiced the resentment felt
!y most scandinavian explorers
when he said in an article in tho
newspaper Politiken, that the ltal
ian airship should never have start
I'd for the north pole because Gener.
al Umbcrto Mobile, its commander
lacked Arctic experience. Mobile
Frcuchcn said, had been warned not
to start Included in Frcuchcn 5
criticim was the fear that the dis
astcr which overlook the Italia
might have hurt the future of Arctic
exploration by airship.
But principally, he, like others
was concerned with the probable
loss of life already incurred by the
heroes who went to the Italia s
rescue, and the fact that scores of
the best Arctic explorers are still
riSking, or ready to risk their lives
on the slightest chance of bringin =
back the remaining men of the III
Who went out with the Italia.
OF the. Ii men who started with
the Italia only ohe has returned ia
civilization - General Cmbcrtl
Mobile, its commander. One man was
killed when the Italia crashed. Six
were carried away with the wrecked
airship TO almost certain death.
Nine were left stranded on the ice.
Df these, three started out to try
10 walk To land. The remainder,
under Mobile, pitched camp on the
ice.
Lieutenant Einar Paai Luu ',,rg
i!cw to Tia ',r ,1mr ana res, ucd
Mobile. Returning for another pas
scngcr, his plane crashed ami lac
waH stranded
Road Amundscn, Lief Dietrich
son, Commandant Rene Guilhaud
aud three others started out TO aid
the Italia crew in French scaplanc
"nd disappeared. The eighth man to
Sc ont and fail to return is the Rus
sian star aviator I1buShkin, who
left the ice breaker KraSsin Fri
day TO fly to the Mobile camp.
STOCKHOLM, July q The Rus
sian lee breaker krassin had ad-
vanced so far northward today that
il was thought possible here she
might reach the Italia lee camp off
Northcastland before. tomorrow.
Conditions were better as the giant
krassiu pushed her nose through
the jamming ice.
LONDON, July 2-An entirely
unconfirmed report not credited
here, pending further news, was
transmitted by the Exchange Tclr-
graph company from Paris today
that the body of Roald AmundScn,
discoVerer of the south pole, had
been found off Norway. AmundSen
anu IlNt VuH' pdHloHS ulSdIptUTtu
June Is in French seaplane that
set out from Tromsoc to aid the
crew of the polar dirigiblc Italia,
OSLO, July . Reports that the
Lody of Roald Amundsen has been
found off the coast of Norway are
untrue, it was learned today after
investigation.
The rcports published here as un-
confirmed and uncredited, were
transmitted from Paris to London
by the Exchange Telegraph com
pany
MOSCOW, July "A wholly un-
confirmed report Xaa RECEIVED here
today that the Russian ice breaker
Krassin had rescued Captain Einar-
Paal Lundborg and five Of the crew
of the lost dirigible Italia from the
ice flow of Northeastland.