New Britain herald., 1928-07-18
S0V|E7S CONTINUE
With THE SEARCH
Trying to Locate Amundsen and
The Balloon Group

Moscow. July is IT, Soviet
rescuers today continued their ef-
forts to clear up the fate of Road
Amundsen and his five missing COM
panions. Preparations also were
made to begin an extensive search
The east over the ice field in the bal
loon part Of the Italia after its crash
north of Spitzbergen.
Hope For AnMlndsen
4 special conference of scientists
reiterated their belief that Amund-
sen had joined the balloon group.
It was pointed out that Amundsen's
pilot. Captain Rene Guilbaud, could
easily have taken Amundsen to them
in the French seaplane. 1t was
/ thought possible that the chassis OF
plane had been damaged in alight-
ing on the ice and that Amundsen's
party had been unable therefore to
return.
The scientists believed that the
group Of five survivors headed by
Lieut.. Alfredo Viglieri would save
persisted but for the timely arrival
of the Russian ice breaker kras-
sin. since the ice on which they we're
marooned was rapidly thinning.
Niglieri in an interview with the
lass (Soviet news agency cores
pondent aboard the krassin said he
believed the condition of the ice and
the fogs made the discovery of the
balloon group impossible at this
time. He said a successful search
should be considered only when the
| fog cleared Nevertheless the Rus
sian rescuers went ahead with their
plans.
Maligin On Way
| The ice breaker Maligin was NOV
ing toward the southeastern shore
of Spitzbergen today while the flier
Sergeev prepared to start with his
seaplane from the vessel to look for
Amundsen's party.
The krassin was en- route to Ad-
vent bay for fuel. 1t will return to
North East Land as soon as possible
and establish a flying base. Pilot
Chukhnovsky who directed the
Krassin to the survivors of the Italia
will begin a search from that base
and every square mile of Ice on the
southeast and northeast shores OF
North East Land will be explored
The sea north east of Foyn Island
will also be thoroughly combed.
Avntor's Rescue
The correspondent Of Tass sent
this story of Chukhnovsky' rescue
by the Krassin after he had been
marooned when he came down or
the ice near Cape Platen:
"A thick fog and wet snow
screened Chukhnovsky who sighte
the Krassin at a distance and ra.
diced his exact location. Progress.
ing very slowly the Krassin sent
two skiers towards Chukhnovsky.
-Four hous after they left. Chuk-
hnovsky and his group accompanied
by four skiers from the ice breaker
Braganza reached the Krassin
Chukhnovsky in coming aboard said
"'Our first worry after the dis.
covery of the Malmgren party and
our forced landing was to supple
ment our provisions. We went
hunting and killed two reindeer. For
four days We suffered from the cold
We slept in the planes cabin but
had no fuel to heat 1t.
"'At the krassin's approach we
gave smoke signals. In our spare
time We did research work obtaining
much interesting data"
A dispatch to the newspaper L.
vestia from its correspondent aboard
the krassin said that the Russian
fliers killed two bears and ate the
meat seasoned with seawater since
they had no salt. One bearskin va.
soaked with petrol and ignited al
flare to signal the krassin.
Urge Investigation
Oslo. July IS ADMINISTRATION o.
General Umberto Mobiles fata