THE ANTARCTIC

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 27 October 1928, Page 9

THE ANTARCTIC

SECOND STAGE OF JOURNEY MESSAGE PROM WILKINS CHEERFUL AND CONFIDENT United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy i ight Australian Proßs Association.—United Service. (Received 27th October, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, 26th October. Sir George Wilkins has sent a cable message from Montevideo dated 24th October, stating that the sturdy whaler Hektoria weighed anchor on the second stage of the journey to the remote icebound Antarctic. All members of the expedition were cheerful and sent farewell messages. Eielson, Crossan, Porter, and lie were in the highest spirits, anticipating complete success. The Norwegians manning the Hektoria were a splendid lot of strong, willing and brave men, and greatly assisted’ in the careful stowing of the aeroplanes, etc. This was essential because success and lives depended thereon. Everyone at Montevideo had been most kind. By starting that day it would mean that the expedition would reach the Antarctic, a land of blizzards, immense ice barriers, and frozen mountains, by the middle of November. * “We are happy to be en route to the fringe of that domain,” the message states, “and are confident we can wrest from mother earth what is probably her last- big secret.’’