ARCTIC EXPEDITION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 31 December 1925, Page 5

ARCTIC EXPEDITION

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NEW YORK. Dec. 29.

\Villeitis, in :in interview, said hiis as soeiafion with Mic Detroit. Arctic oxpolitico iljr] not mean that he had alum doned lii> Anlarel iC plans m\ nb ing Auslralinn and Ney, Zealand point pacific expedition, leaving Ncv. /.eahod a!,i ill October 1920. as fi,. cxpe. is the Arelie work will he completed h.•!'. re ilirn. All the profits he would he ahle to save from the Arctic would he uml in connection with the Australian and New Zealand or substitute expedition. Tile maeliine he used in the Antic flight would afterwards he used ill the. Antarctic, taking the place of N 25. lor which he had negotiated, hut which he had failed to secure owing to lack of Australian financial support.

Stoffanson. interviewed, staled that the Arctic High! wi uld he of great hencfil In Wilkins in further work, demonstrating that polar air renditions are on worse, and possibly hotter than elsewhere ami that the pules arc not tile barren ico-oovcred wastes which explorers have long known ; hut it is necessary actually to demonstrate the fact to convince tin- public and arouse interest in support of further exploration and develop ut of the legions.