SOUTH POLE EXPEDITION.

Grey River Argus, 4 February 1910, Page 3

SOUTH POLE EXPEDITION.

fßecd." 3rd, 10.5 p.m.) - ■ NEW YORK- .Feb.: ?\

; : The/Natipnaj Gebgraphical Society "of th-.v Unitß<3 States -received with'-ac-lamatipn and referred to the ; Finance "Research Committee, Peary's projTJOsal^on liohalf of the Arctic "Club, for '.-. an .Antarctic, expedition. The i/: Chili; contribute'; the steamship Rbc;?eyelt: cbhtlitional. on • the Sooiety granting sp.nnrJ. ; r l ollars t^yards the expedition .arid .both institutions sharing the balIr.aiice'.pf^the expenses. Peary sugwestfi'c'^ !:that 'tne^ expedition should reach the i obf.st of : Wie Antarctic Continent 'in March, 1911. at/a '.'point directly bppo-: Kite Scott's base, the American arid British camps to be 2000 miles anart. irlt-: -is calculated' that /thePole would be •:xea'cKed';bjr tne-erid of l Deceriiber^ Peary f^would"-be uiiable to conduct it persoxiallv because the sledge, wort would rev'ci wire so much ; phyhical exertion a^ to ■ '•jio'H'.'a youiiger.niaii. : / ;