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DANTESQUE HORROR OF NORTH POLE FLIGHT.

General Umberto Nobile, the famons Italian airman, who will shortly make two fights to the North Pole from his base at King's Bay, where his airship Italia is now housed in a raavas hangar, sent the following wireless message to the Daily Express, describing his preliminary fight against the Arctic skies.

KING'S BAY, Spitzbergen,

May sih.

(By Wireless.) We have come into a world of dreams among

the resplendent purity of the "anowe, After ao many days of anxious expectation, this ice-covered haven, the last lap of our preliminary journey to the North Pole, is infinitely soothing, and here I may find the means of solving the enigma of the Pole.

Spitsbergen We felt our bearts pounding" in our breasts. Was it possible that the end of our journey was so near! But soon we found that King's Day was not so easy to reach.

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BIRMINGHAM TUNNEL

COLLAPSE.

FOUR MEN KILLED.

100 NARROWLY ESCAPE.

BIRMINGHAM, May 4th, Four men were killed and several were injured this afternoon when section of Colton Tunnel, on the London. Midland, and Scottish Railway, near Northfield, Birming- ham, collapsed

About 200 tons of débris crashed without warning among a party of 100 men working on the de molition of the tunnel.

Those killed were: Artbur Parker, aged about 49, an LLS. employee, of Cardworth, Water Orton, Birmingham. H. C. Sescole, a workman, of

Church-street, Redditch, Worces We

tershire.

Arthur Troth, aged 25, a workman, of Bewell-head, Bromsgrove, Wor- cestershire...

William Price, an L.S.

ployee, of Moseley-road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

The wind increasing to half a gate gave, us a merry dance. Thi Italia sped along, pushed, by the boisterous wind. But it was roll ing and pitching madly. should have preferred even a con- We left Vadso Iaat Saturday trary wind to that excessive leeway evening in a heavy storm. Just be- At the seventy-sixth Intitude we fore I gave the order to go, I had sighted the first icebergs. The sky to find my way out of a serious darkens. Here is the enemy. It dilemma. On the one hand there comes on "against us with violent was the danger that the storm mien. And yet we are now so near would attack the airship on its to our goal. The southern mont moorings; on the other hand, there point of Spitzbergen is plainly was the risk of a stormy flight over visible.. the insidious Sea of Barents.

I decided at last that of the two turn after affording us a sight of risks to be taken, the last was the rhaven 1. Fortunately the Italia

resists the onslaught of the gale away. lesser oge. As it happened, my deand proceeds on its way without cision was so sudden that some of much loss of, speed. Again the

The tunnel is quarter of a mile the crew were just in time to climb steaming sea announces the dread long and had been cut into soft. the mooring mast and take their fog. On our right the tall moun- cecions to simplify blasting opera- places on board. There was no tains of Spitzbergen are hidden time to take sufficient supplies on mysteriously, But at their bases. These were to have taken board. We took our chance of we cha see their white slopes meet-place on Sunday: braving the Sea of Barents withing the shore, where the snow melts the least possible delay.

into multitudes of grey pools. Large strips of seaweed cover the sea surface. sight of land is soon denied us.

Even this fleeting

Timely Decision,

The result has shown how timely was my decision, for even ten minutes delay might have made it impossible for us to start frota Vadeo at all. At 8.34 p.m. the airship, having left its moorings, floated into the icy breeze of the Varengen Fjord. We were all afire with the joy of the impending fight against the Arctic skies; for we fait that a fight was inevitable, although the unruffled sea seemed to helie our forebodings, while a few rosy wisps of clouds reminded us that in these latitudes it is always day time in May.

Soon we flew on at the speed of forty-seven miles, consting up to the extreme north point of the little peninsula, which is embraced on all sides by the Tana and the Varengen Fjords.

Immersed In Mist,

Then we became immersed in sa immense pall of grey mist. Both the sea and the sky were blotted out. The tall cliffs of the coast were the only touch of colour in the vast grey wilderness which sur rounded us. The Tana lighthouse was invisible, but we were heard when passing over it. A sharp, long wail of its siren warned us to turn to the north-west, making

for Bears Island

Will the elements force as to re-

Airship In Peril

Now we travel in impenetrable fog while the bowling of the wind increases. The airship is violently and perilously tossed and shaken. We all sense danger. I inquire how much petrol we have still on board. I am contemplating”-tho possibility of a forced return to Vadso. It is a difficult moment. Of a sudden, a snowstorm of in- credible force breaks out, catching the incessant hammering of the the airship sideways. We listen to driven snow on the flexible body of the Italia, which seems to vibrate and to wail like a living being, while straining every nerve. to obey its masters.

I am in front of the controls. I give the order," Against the sight. We see myriads of snow. wind!" Then comes a wonderful flakes flying away in a double vor tex in the contrary direction. The airship pumpa, oscillates and falls until a sharp word of command brings it into line again. Wo are in the midst of a Dantesque storm. Through the gondola we witness this tumultuous fury of the elements with a mingled feeling of surprise and admira tion.

windows of our

Forbidden Word.

For more than two years the Railway has been carrying out ex- London, Midland, and Scottish tendive levelling and widening work. At this spot the tunnel was shortly to be demolished, all rock and earth having been cleared

"Seamed To Bulge."

Above men at work was an air shaft of brick and iron, and it is thought that its weight may have coatributed to the collapse.

This occurred after a goods train had passed through. A man who was near said: "The tunnel seemed to bulge and quiver, and then it came tumbling down about us?

from the top of the tunnel before All the earth had been removed

the collapse occurred, and the fall. operations were consequently car- Wis of brickwork. only. Rescue

themselves into removing the débris ried out in daylight, and resolved in a frenzied search for the buried

'men.

Rescuers Dash To Spot. The section which collapsed was crash occurred the rescuers dashed about 60ft. long. Immediately the to the spot, and ten minutes later. recovered. The others were reached the body of Arthur Parker was

intervals up to 5.30. The in- juries were. so terrible as to make identification difficult,

A casualty station in charge of Dr. Duek dealt with the injured, and nurses and first-aid appliances were rushed from the Austin Motor Works.

Traffic was held up for more than three hours, and the railway company instituted & motor- omnibus service to carry passengers to their destinations. The debris had been cleared by 7 o'clock.

This first part of our journey was surprisingly smooth atter the alarms of our

It is nine o'clock Now the wind departure from veers round again behind us. It Vadso. Yet amid that melancholy is severely forbidden on board the greyacas there was an underlying Italia to allude to the danger be menace of trouble to come. How fore the danger is passed. But we far Italy seemed to be from that colourless solitude. We remember-silently a smile as if we wished not afraid. We exchange ed its azure skies, as one sees in to assure tacitly one another of our "STRUCK BY LIGHTNING."

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a dream a fancied world The will to persist at all costs. Persis- northern Landscape filled our tence eventually won its reward.

southern souls with a sense of sad-At 8.45 the Italia begins to shed AND A FIGHT WITH A MAN

Dess.

ita pall of fog and snow, and ceases From midnight on, the fog began to pitch and roll so violently. The to thicken. This great enemy to engines pant as if exhausted by the navigators gave us no rest. At long ordeal and presently the air- rare intervals however, the noc ship resumes a steady course like turnal sun of the Arctic pierced a giant freed from his letters. the woodly layers of mist, shedding Wo see again the golden mountain its orange rays or the sea suddenly tops of Spitzbergen beneath an im turned into liquid cobalt, sa if maculate, clear sky touched by a superhuman brush. The Arctic sun is much more ap-

Indescribable Roller. proachable than the Italian. It has able before that sudden transition Our feeling of relief is indescrib- none of its overweening pride. It into luminous spring weather. We will let you look into its face with might be approaching a Mediter oub blinding you. Its array of light is like a symphony in a minor ranean shore were it not for the key.

boundless expanse of snow, con trasting with the intense azure of the sea

Error Discovered..

WHO DENIED IT.

Struck by lightning during the big thunderstorm of a recent Thursday night, an out of work was 30 angry- that, after being treated at St. Thomas's Hospital for shock, be returned to the Embankment and struck Peter Rooney, a perfect stranger, in the eye.

After drinking four half-pinte with an old Army comrade in a public-house in Blackfriars road, Joseph Powell sought his bed at & Salvation Army hostel Crossing Westminster Bridge, he never saw the flash that knocked him out nor I thought then that perhaps from The Arctic has given us an unheard the "poal of thunder that now henceforth we should not see hoped-for festive greeting We recorded the event. brighter day (or night) than that. shout, our joy. We see already the I have discovered my error since friendly colours of Italy flying op hospital and one of the officers gave Two policemen took him to the reaching King's Bay. It was four the mast of our supply thip, the him.eighteen-peace to buy a supper. o'clock in the morning when we ar- Citta di Milano, and their crew Joseph was not so much hurt as rived over Bears Island, point of crowding the shore ready for our angry, and when a doctor had the shore. We came still lower. landing Three men-three small black dots The Italia descended slowly, like him he would soon get over the patted him am the back and told -saluted, waving their arms in monster fatigued but satisfied. shock, he returned to the Embank greeting.

A formidable hooray prove ment with a pronounced grievance Those unknown friends have sailors and Alpine troops reached against things in general, never seen a flying ship pass over our ears. We moored temporarily their lonely island before. We at the mooring mast owing to the dropped a friendly message of strong wind, but a little later our greeting wrapped in an Italian men from Citta di Milano, with fing. Maybe this has been an event the kind, help of a party of Nor-

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