RETURNING HOME
MESSAGE FROM WILKINS
TO 'MY AGAIN NEXT SEASON
Australian Press Association—United Berrtet. (Received 28Ui January, 1 p.m.) LONDON, 27th January. Sir George Wilkins, in a wireless message from Deception Island, states that the snow is disappearing more rapidly than has even been known before, leaving areas of dark volcanic .soil uncovered am id the mountains of snow. "On Monday or Tuesday travelling on a Fclrus boat of tho trawler typo, we shall start for home, calling at tlie Falklands'to board the Boyal Mail packet Orduna. Our route will bo through Magellan Straits and up the coast of 'South America. We should reach New York in the middle of March. Our equipment is safely .stored. Upon our return a few days' work will put it in readiness for continuing our programme, which we hope to conclude next December. Eielson, G'rossan, and Porter arc disappointed at being unable to make the Koss Sea flight this season, and pledge themselves to return to complete tho job. Victor Olson, the wireless operator, has given very efficient service, working late at night and rising at 4.30 in the mornings to copy news broadcast from San Francisco."
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 28 January 1929, Page 9
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193RETURNING HOME Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 28 January 1929, Page 9
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