New Britain herald., 1928-07-02

Amundsen, Norwegian explorer
 and his five companions in
 French plane which took off
 from Norway two weeks ago
 today to assist in the Mobile
 relief work.
 The air ministry made the
 announcement today that it
 was preparing 10 send the two
 planes. The destination, time of
 departure and the pilots have
 not yet been decided upon.
 London, July tP-With two air plane rescue expeditions missing criticism of General Umberto No- bIle's fatal polar flight and the con- duct of relief operations was being voiced today.
 Two weeks ago Roald Amundsen and five other men started out in French seaplane to join in the res cue work and disappeared. On Fri day the Russian alrman Babushkin hopped off from the Soviet ice breaker Maligin in the polar seas only to be swallowed up by the arc tic.
 Fails to Co-Opcrate. 4 Moscow dispatch to the Daily Express today quoted Sergi kamen- eff. inspector general of the Red army, as charging that Mobiles base ship the Citta Di Milano had failed 1 to cooperate in the rescue work He said the base ship had neglected to inform the Mailgin that the po- sition of the five castaWays of the Italia and the Swedish airman Lieu tenant Lundborg had been changed by the drift of the ice in time to warn Babushkin before he started on his flight to them.
 kameneff. who is one of the lead CTS of the Soviet relief committed, made statement to the Moscow newspaper Izvestia in which he strongly condemned "the shameful lack of coordination of the Nari- ous expeditions. He .contended that Amundsen ought to have been put in charge Of centralized relief or ganization. He believed that rescue could be accomplished only by CO., operation between Soviet ice break CTS and Swedish airplanes. The Berlin newspaper Montag Morgen today printed a dispatch from it's Copenhagen correspondent in which he said that a large num- Der of arctic explorers arriving at Trolnsoe from the meeting of ex- plorers at Leningrad were reported to have scathingly denounced the Mobile expedition. Peter Freuchen, Danish explorer, was quoted as saying. "lt was not a case of trag- edy only. but Mobiles expedition was the darkest blot in the annals of arctic exploration, Mobile meet ing both technical and moral defeat and discrediting entirely arctic ex- ploration by means of airships.' Little Hope
 The Copenhagen newspaper Poli- tiken also published a statement from Freuchen in which he said aviators at Tromsoe had little hope of finding the Amundsen party. Freuchen quoted Helmer Hansen, who accompanied Amundsen to the south pole, as believing his former chief had died heroically.
 | Experts in northern Norway be- | lieved that the French seaplane was proba bly forced down in stormy conditions and collapsed upon hit ting the waves. This would have meant a speedy end for all on | board Amundsen's friends remark ed that such finish would have been in accord with the veteran ex- plorer's own wishes
 | search Continues Despite these gloomy opinions. search by air and sea continued to- day for Amundsen and new expe- ditions got underway. A special eX- petition, financed by popular sub scription. left Alesund Norway, aboard the arctic vessel Neslekari to join in the Amundsen search. Those familiar with arctic condi- tions suggested that a large fleet of whaling boats be used to sweep wide areas in a desperate effort to find Amundsen.
 The Oslo correspondent Of the Daily Mail said that Great Britain had agreed to send two British air planes to aid in the search organ ized by Danish newspapers. 1 Enh Hammers Diane