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International. Diamond meanwhile was not to be located. Only Dalton, Klein, and Mrs. Diamond insisted he was aboard the Baltic. The Baltic's captain radioed insistently that he was not. New York City authorities cabled his picture and history to Britain. Result: violent British excitement at the approach of a U. S. gangster famed nearly as much as "Scarface Al" Capone himself. At the height of the excitement, the S. S. Belgenland came into Plymouth, England. One of her passengers, registered as "John T. Nolan," said he was Diamond, told newshawks: "I have stomach and liver trouble. . . . The reason...
Meanwhile the captain & crew of the Dunara Castle were working like demons, stowing the pitiful furniture and belongings of the St. Kildans aboard ship, pulling from the icy water 590 bellowing, redeyed, shaggy little Highland cattle and bleating sheep, which had been made to swim out from St. Kilda's gravelly landing beach (St. Kilda has no harbor). Left behind were hundreds of other sheep, too wild to catch, hidden away in the island caves with the seamews and the puffins. Reason for the exodus: St. Kilda's new owner, the Marquess of Ailsa and the British Labor...
...bodies of the Swedish explorer Salomon August Andree and his companions, lost on their poleward balloon flight of 1897, was the Story (TIME, Sept. 1). Its remoteness was heightened to a degree maddening to the Press by the fact that the bodies, relics and Andree's diary were aboard the little sealer Brattvaag which, equipped with only a flimsy receiving radio, might be plodding diligently about its business in the Arctic sealing grounds, oblivious or indifferent to the furore ashore...
...each boat a radioman worked hour after hour, sent into the ether offers to Dr. Gunnar Horn, scientist aboard the Bratt-vaag, for "exclusives" on the story, pictures, diary. Each pleaded with him for a midocean rendezvous at a designated point in the Arctic. Each could only hope and pray that the message would be received, that the Brattvaag would be there, or that they would happen upon...
...newsmen might well have preferred to trust to luck and hope that the Brattvaag's radio was deaf to all. For at the request of the Swedish Government, Norwegian officials were flashing frantic orders to Dr. Horn and the Brattvaag's crew to permit no "unauthorized person" aboard the sealer, to maintain strict secrecy regarding the story, especially the diary, and to proceed immediately to a point between Tromso and Vardo...