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

STOCKHOLM. July o.-Rl-The
five survivors Of the Italia are III
with fever and most Of them show
signs Of partial insanity. according
10 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 m~aTooned on the ice near
Foyn island with them for Is days,
said his stay was terrifying. They
had very little food and what he got
was rather unappetiEing. They were
reproyisioned before he was rescued
however.
Lundborg asserted all the sur
vivors were suffering from fever
and most of them showed signs Of
mental alteration. Giuseppi 5iogo'
radio operator, was suffering from
fever for the last two days before
Lundhorg was rescued but %neyerthe-
less he ESose at least twice daily 70
operate the wireless.
Mobile Story Don't Check
Since Lundborg was rescued last
AAA1&1 AHNAN mas bN@H Nv 49, -
tact with the marooned men, ad-
vices from the Quest said.
Other details coming from Spitz-
bergen conflict with reports Of the
disaster given out by General Una
the base ship Citta HI Milano. where
Mobile il. are beiag censored. No
body is allowed 70 telegraph in any
Language except Italian and all tele-
Nrams to Rome are controlled by
Mobile himself.
IL was learned, however. that No
bile o saws the radio was eli
right from the first minute after
the dirigible crashed on May -.
Nobody can e~Yplain how the citta di
Milano and other stations were un'
able 10 pick it up until June Q. when
the base ship first announced that
1t had established communication
with the survivors.
General Mobiles mysterious state
ment about the unexpected fall OF
the dirigible and that the crew was
not prepared appeared 10 conflict
with the fact that there were 50
pounds Of provisions in the nayi'
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 d~irigible's interior
Early Rescue Not Likely
DR.. Finn Malmgren and the tive
men who started afoot for land with
him had fifty pounds OF stores
when they started on May 50. They
had M weapons and il was thought
that they all persisted.
Hope for rescue Of the five ma
reoned men appeared today to lie in
the Russian ice breaker Krassin-
This vessel found progress through
the ice field siow and today was
% nautical miles away from the
men. Eventually. says Captain
ThoFnberr. head or the Swedish res
cue mission. n ice conditions inn
prove, the ship can reach the refu-
gees.
Prospects % rescue BY air was
believed to be dwindling. The Swed
lsh leader recommended thst the
large Swedish Junkers plane be sent
home.
A landing on the ice with a small.
spert plane is possible only when
the temperature is below freezing.
he thinks. even then il is attended
by great risks. At present the tenn
persture, because of the cloudiness.
is above the freezing point.
~ The six men carried away in the
balloon part Of the Italia probably
were killed by the explosion which
was observed BY the marooned men
after the crash on the ice. Ne said