AMERICAN EXPEDITION
UNPLEASANT RELATIONS COMMANDER AND MINISTER. WASHINGTON. June 24. 4n open quarrel has arisen between fnp Secretary for the Navv, Mr Curtis Wilbur, and Captain Donald McMillan, commander of the newest American Polar expedition, which sailed from Boston yesterday. CaDtain McMillan declined to take naval radio equipment, so Mr Wilbur sent a peremptory message to Commander Byrd, who is in charge of the wren naval Avers and three aeroplanes attached to the expedition, instructing •1m to discard the commercial equipment, and to substitute naval radio. Tbe dcstrover Putnam left Boston tpdav in pursuit of Captain McMillan’s party, and with orders to place the new outfit aboard the expedition’s vessel at Sydney (Nova Scotia), the first port of•all. Cantain McMillan want* to keep the expedition in communication with the public bv selling stories of the trip to newspapers, while tlie Secretary for the Navy insists on official secrecy being observed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12199, 25 July 1925, Page 11
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