ANTARCTICA.
.), i DEPARTURE OF THE JAPANEBB", - EXPEDITION. ~; . United Press Association—By ElectrU s '|. Telegraph—Copyright. ' ; *f. 'V ' YOKOHAMA, November ,23^. q" Lieutenant Shirase's Antarctic ; dition aboard the Kainna Mam, * Yokohama yesterday. '* __». Experts consider that, owing to is?;,"', adequate preparations, it is foredoomf^-_)> to failure. '•*"_/!:-' Originally the Japanese azpediktMb j \* was to leave Japan on' August Island to arrivo at Maciaurdo Bay, in the. i Antarctic, on the 13th October. jEßjm_'.,,'• there Lieutenant* Shirasc, with fouristeft i ! \ and five Siberian ponies, was to stake. _~ v < his dash for the Pols, while tho re-"'-.* mainder of the party established »'_ ,V _J? coastal base and food depots for tho turn journey. The funds raised wenj - >"_ at latest advices, only £4000, or about % i" i a tenth of that raised by Captain Sooti'' ._S for the Terra Nova expedition. The'iY? Japanese claim that "what an Oeci--~ ij| dental can accomplisli witn 300.000 yen '?'a a Japanese can with 90,000 yen." vJI
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13904, 1 December 1910, Page 6
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