ARCTIC EXPEDITION DELAYED
Ship Meets Heavy Seas BRITISH PARTY BOUND FOR GREENLAND By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. (“Times” Cable.) (Received May 7, 11.30 p.m.) London, May 7. Heavy storms delayed Lieutenant Martin Lindsay’s British Arctic expedition which is to attempt a sledge journey of SOO miles across the Greenland ice-cap. The Gertrud Rask is a steamer of 400 tons which is conveying a party to the west Greenland coast. She struck the pack-ice 80 miles south of Egedesminde, where she should have arrived six days ago. High winds blew her 50 miles off her course.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 188, 8 May 1934, Page 9
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