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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 124, 28 May 1925, Page 7

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SILENCE OF AMUNDSEN. THE POLAR FLIGHT. COMMENTS OF EXPERTS. (By rable.—rre<s Association.—Copyright. (Received 1.30 p.in.j LONDON, May 27. A Airelc;s from tiie l'urm on Wednesday Htt-ninon B aye that iliore is nothing 1 to'repor: i-xcept that the g"od weather | at i-pit/btrgen and i" the I'ular Uis'm . is maintained. It srtms cvrtain that the low pressure cent re.l in Kuasia lias beon deflected A message from Copenhagen says that, M Thuniniospn chairman of th« Nor-j ■.u.j:i-in Sl.ij.piiif! Union) states that ilicr.' i- no ivason i" bclievu a relief cxpedit.-u would he of much value to (aptnin Amundsen, who had previously opposed such an idea. The explorer was of opinion that his expedition had been ~n carefully planned and equipped for Arctic conditions that a relief expedition wrm! I i,;ue n worse chance than his own. A dispatch from Ottawa state? that Captain Hornier, the Canadian explorer, s;iys he believes there is no cause for alarm about Captain Amundsen. "If he did land at the Pole." he says, "lie is now making observations which will unquestionably establish the fact that he readied the North Pole. "It is equally possible that he landed safely, but has encountered weather unfavourable for a return flight. He has been long enough in the Arctic regions to be able to wait awhile and judge of the best route to bring hi.3 party back to safety. Captain Amundsen could utilise Xnnsen's food cache. 400 miles from the Polo, at Cape Columbia. He would then have little difficulty in reaching Elaemere L.md and Sab'ine Cape, where I left a food cache. "From there he would journey into Alaska or Hudson's Bay, and get into touch with the mounted police.''—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)