MACHINES MAY SEPARATE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 121, 26 May 1925, Page 7

MACHINES MAY SEPARATE

COPENHAGEN, 24th May. (< M. Froisland, editor.. of the' Oslo " Afleupost," which was closely associated with Amundsen's preparations, considors tliat the absence of news gives no cause for alarm. It will require at least forty-eight hours, he says, to carry out thorough observations similar to those carried out at the. South Pole in 1911. M. Froisland considers that possibly one machine will return to bpitzbergen with Amundsen, and the other will fly southwards to Cape Columbia or to the ship Maud, which is icoboumi at the New Siberian Islands. Such a flight would be across the unknown areas which Amundsen originally intended to explore.

Captain Eoald Amundsen expected to ta.fe irom eight to ten hours to tly across tho North Pole, so that there being no news of his safe arrival at Alaska may be taken to indicate that delay has occurred from some cause or other. One of Captain Amundsen's objectives was to explore the polar region for an aeroarome site, which may furnish a reason and explain his delay in reaching his destination. The erection of an aerodrome in the vicinity of the North Pole is expected to enable flights to be mad e so as to bring London within SO hours of Japan. Before he left on his final flight Captain Amundsen said: "I am undertaking the greatest risk of my life; but I am certain that I will succeed."