BENEATH THE ICE

Evening Star, Issue 22573, 15 February 1937, Page 9

BENEATH THE ICE

SIR HUBERT WILKINS'S PROJECT TO UNDERWRITE ADVENTURE HIMSELF Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, February 14. Sir Hubert Wilkins will return to London. He is underwriting his submarine polar project himself, at a cost of 135,000 dollars. _ “ That is probably why Lady Wilkins went to work,” said Sir Hubert, “ without telling me. She feels she_ is _ helping to finance the trip, and it is perfectly all right with me. It is not as though I am here a great deal and her working interfered with our home.” Lady Wilkins, who admitted that she is constantly nervous and on edge from having to practise for concerts and then render dozens of songs nightly at a cabaret, declared that she is accompanying Sir Hubert on his forthcoming trip in June, 1938. Sir Hubert says that he has a fivefold objective, the principal of which is to locate the supposedly mythical Croker Land that Peary saw south of the North Pole and north-east of Ellesmere Land. He said that from Spitzbergen with a crew of seven, besides his wife, he could travel several thousand miles beneath the Arctic floes. He is planning to stop briefly under the North Pole before coming up somewhere on the Alaskan coast.