New Britain herald., 1930-09-03
portant thus far found to tell of the fate of the Andree expedition"

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 Tromsoe, Norway, Sept. 3 P- Discovery of a hitherto unsuspected diary in the clothing of Salo- mon August Andree, aeronaut-ex- plorer of thes Arctic, today excited high hopes among experts that the whole epic of the first Polar flight attempt to reach the north pole might be unfolded completely to the world.
 With the help of this diary, and Andree's navigation log and the oth- CT diary found by Dr. Gunnar Horn last month in Andree's camp on White Island, experts hope to re- construct the adventures of the pi- oneer aeronautical explorer. They expect to learn how the balloon met disaster and how Andree and his two comrades fought their way
  where they perished,
 The diary was found during ex- animation of Andree's body in the little Tromsoe hospital early this morning. It was the most sensa- tional discovery of the night, during which positive identification was made of the bodies of Andree and Nils Strindberg and the puzzling bones brought back by Dr. Horn were found to be those of a Polar bear and not of Knut Frankel, third member of the expedition.
 Lost 33 Years
 For 33 years these diaries and the log have been buried under the same shroud of snow and ice that hid the bodies of the explorers from the world.
 It is surmised that the diary found by Dr. Horn on White Island con- tains the narrative of what befell the expedition during It's lonely months of virtual imprisonment while waiting for rescue on the is land beach. Dr. Horn has refused as yet 10 make it public.
 Andree's log book, according to Horns statement. does not continue up until the very last days of An dree's life.
 The new diary may we'll contain the record of the balloon flight from Spitzbergen, which is supposed to have ended in latitude S3 north of the balloons wreck and perhaps the party's wanderings over the ice and Arctic waters with their sledges and their frail canvas boat.
 Frankel Still Lost
 Only from a study of the three, it now appears, will the world ever know the fate of knut Frankel. Identification by the experts, profess sors Hebrew and Lithberg. of the bones brought back by Dr. Horn as those of a polar bear leaves open to question what became of Frankel's | body
 He may have perished with the wreck of the balloon or on the way 10 White Island. Or on the island itself, his body may have been de- | voured by the bears that Dr. Horn says often ravaged the camp, or it still may be buried under the snow.
 The identification of the bodies of Andree and Strindberg, brought back to civilization after being entombed 33 years on White Island, was made under dramatic circumstances. The body of Strindberg was iden- tified by his own brother, the sculp- tor, There Strindberg, of Stockholm The dead mans teeth were recog- nized positively. i So far as Andree is concerned. there has never been any real doubt that it was his body that pr. Gun nar Horns Norwegian exploring eX. petition brought back early this week. Confirmation was hardly ncc- l essary, but it was made by the Swedish professors Hedren and Lithberg, experts sent here especial ly for the purpose,
 The body of the third member of 1 the expedition, knut Frankel, re- mains lost somewhere amid the | fogs and ice and desolate snows ot the arctic. A heap of bones found ! by Dr. Horn iii Andree's boat and brought back without positive cer- tainty as to their nature, were l found to be those of a polar bear
 Prof. Hedren and Prof. Lithberg with other experts, worked through l out the night examining the bodies