IN FROZEN NORTH.
h' ' ♦ * MACMILLAN EXPEDITION. ' VOICES HEARD BY RADIO. ' |W CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT ) UtSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received August 14th, 7.15 p.m.) ■ « ■ NEW YORK, August 13. According to a telegram from Chic*B°> Commander MacMillan's ship || Peary, which is within eleven degrees of the Pole, .was distinctly .heard during an experiment by station 9XN. - - fhe voico of E. F. McDonald, second * in command, was heard announcing the numbers, also the voice of Ensign Gray giving a talk on the day's events. He said that the aeroplane engines were lu R°°d condition after a trial flight. A dispatch from Etah, Greenland, ... that the 'planes of the expedition had difficulty in findiug thj base. n yl7 days' flying time was left. Wing the Arctic summer. MacMillan *ll make another attempt audi will '. store fuel and food at Flugler Bay in . .. e hope that lie will-carry through P r °i ect of Hying over an unexplored spot of tho Arctic Ocean.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18461, 15 August 1925, Page 13
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159IN FROZEN NORTH. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18461, 15 August 1925, Page 13
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