IN THE FROZEN NORTH.
RIVAL EKPFjnmONS
SEARCH FOR, LAND. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, Feb. 17. A, race with air squadrons of Bolshevik Russia to claim land which might be used as a, military flying base north of Alaska or Siberia, will probably be the result of the Polar flying expedition which Lieutenant Leigh Wade, the round-the-world flier, will command. Lieutenant Wade said on Wednesday : “It is the firm opinion of every member of our party that the Bolsheviks plan to beat us in finding the continent which we feel assured lies in the uncharted seas above Alaska. While there is no direct evidence of this, there is much circumstantial evidence. We are planning our trip definitely with the idea, of getting there ahead of the Bolsheviks if we can.”
Lieutenant Wade said the closing of Wrangel Island, Kamchatka, Peninsula and North-Eastern Siberia to foreigners was one of the events upon which, he based the belief that the Soviet Hi era were planning an expedition of their own.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 February 1926, Page 5
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