GREENLAND SLEDGE EXPEDITION
FEARS FOR SAFETY CONSIDERED PREMATURE (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 31st August. The fears expressed in reports from Copenhagen regarding the safety of the sledge expedition led by Lieut. Martin Lindsay across the Greenland ice cap, owing to the absence of news of the exfiedition when the motor ship Gertrude task left Angmagssalik, is regarded as premature by Lindsay’s friends, who state that they did not expect him to reach his objective until the middle of next month. It is believed their rations Would he sufficient for them to hold out for the full three months, which they expected the journey of 1000 miles to take.
The expedition carried no wireless. The Greenland administration states that another motor ship calls at Angmngssalik in a few days’ time and the British schooner Jacent is still fishing near the east Greenland, coast, and has hen given permission by wireless to go to Angmagssalik. Lieutenant Lindsav. who has two companions, began the journey across the ice cap on about Bth June, and carried ten weeks’ food. Although there is yet no cause for anxiety, the news of their arrival ou the east coast is eagerly awaited.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 3 September 1934, Page 5
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