SOUTH POLAR EXPEDITION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 91, 19 April 1939, Page 18

SOUTH POLAR EXPEDITION

(Received April 19, 10 a.m.)

MONTREAL, April 18

Interviewed in connection with the proposal that he and Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth should organise a South Polar expedition to make sure of American claims to territory, Admiral Byrd said that the summer of 1940 would be the most practical season for the Government expedition.

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