TRANS-POLAR FLIGHT
CAPTAIN WILKINS' ATTEMPT. SUPPLY PARTY SETS OUT. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 10.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 14. A message from Menana (Alaska). stnted that the supply party of Captain Wilkins' trans-polar expedition, lias returned. Their snow motors were damaged, occasioning a delay erf many hours. They only travelled three miles, after yesterday's start on /the Menana river. . ( Tho party recommenced tneir WUU mile tramp to Point Barrow on Saturday. They were making les« than three miles an hour as they left.
FAILURE FORECASTED.
AMUNDSEN'S VIEW OF MATTERS.
NEW YORK, February 12. "Captain-George Wilkins, the Australian explorer, now en route to Point Barrow, Northern Alaska, whence he will hop off in March in an attempt to fly over tho North Pole to Spitsbergen, will never make- it in ■■< plane," said Captain Roald Amundsen Norwegian explorer, to-day at_ Sacramento (California), where he is uom sojourning. "I learned a lesson on my la.si voyage! It is almost certain death r ultimate destruction to land on ir< floes."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10670, 15 February 1926, Page 5
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