Messages from the search parties who have been trying to
rescue the survivors from the disaster to the ' Italia ' have contained harrowing details and unhappily these have become the cause of international ill-feeling. On Thursday, July -12th, the Russian icebreaker, Krassin,' reported that two out of the three members of the walking party had been saved and were on board the Krassin.' They were Major Mariano and Major Zappi.. The third member of the party, the promising young Swedish man of science,' Dr. Malmgren, was dead. -At his own request he had been left by his two companions to die with both his legs frozen. The mind rushes back to that unforget- table day when Captain Oates nobly sacrificed himself rather than allow Captain Scott's South Polar party to be impeded in their desperate march against starvation. It will be remembered that the walking party started off at the end of May in the hope of being able to march across the drifting ice to - bring succour to those who remained where the gondola of the ' had crashed. * • * •
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