SUBMARINE VOYAGE TO ARCTIC
SIR HUBERT WILKINS SPENDING 135,000 DOLLARS
(Received February 14, 10.2 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 14. Sir Hubert Wilkins will return to London. He is financing his projected submarine polar expedition himself, at a cost of 135,000 dollars. "That is probably why Lady Wilkins went to work without telling me," said Sir Hubert. "She feels that she is helping to finance the trip, and it is perfectly all right with me. It is not as though I were here a great deal, and as though her working interfered with our home."
Lady Wilkins, who admitted that she was constantly nervous and "on edge" through having to practise for concerts and then give dozens of songs a night at a cabaret, declared that she was accompanying Sir Hubert on his coming trip m June; 1938. ' . J _. Sir Hubert said that he had five objectives, the chief of which was to locate the supposedly mythical Croker Land seen by Peary south of the North Pole, and north-east Ellesmere Land. He said that from Spitzbergen a crew of seven, apart from his wife, .would travel several thousand miles,, beneath the Arctic floes. .He. was planning to stop briefly under the North Pole before coming up somewhere along the Alaskan coast. •
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22017, 15 February 1937, Page 9
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