AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

— [Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] AMUNDSEN'S I’l-AX. VANCOUVER. Feb. 21. Captain Amundsen, the explorer, is confident- of passing over the North Bole in his Jliglit, in an Italian-made dirigible of the semi-rigid type from Spitsbergen to Point Barrow in Alaska in .May. He declared there was not the slightest doubt he would make it. He stated he would he flying in tho Polar regions when the atmospheric conditions were ideal.

Captain Amundsen doubts the existence o! any great continent in the Polar Begion. As far as lie was able to judge from his years of experience in exploration work', the Pole was .surrounded by a million square miles of waiter and an enormous field of ice. He said he deeply regretted that Wilkins’s expedition had decided to use an airplane in its Polar flight, lie believes airplanes at their present stage of development are useless for Polar work. With a dirigible there was no necessity of searching for non-existent landing places, and there was a greater possibility of success. FILMS STOLEN. NEW YORK, Feb. 21. Forty-three films, of an estimated exhibiting value of a million dollars were stolen on Wednesday from the Motion Picture Exchange. The thieves carried them away in a truck, while thousands of people were passing. As the pictures are registered, the owners said that they cannot he shown without leading to the detection of the thieves. Canadian ship rombarded. WASHINGTON. Feb. 24.

Following on receipt of London despatches staling the British Ambassador here will be instructed to conduct an enquiry into the alleged bombardment of a Canadian schooner, the Eastwood, twenty-one miles off Long Island, oil February loth., by the U.S.A. coastguard cutter “Sonaea,” a Treasury official said on Wednesday that the fact would be prolicd, if such an enquiry wore made. The Eastwood limped into Limenhcrg, Nova Scotia badly damaged by shots.