SOUTH POLAR RESEARCH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5, 6 January 1914, Page 7

SOUTH POLAR RESEARCH.

VIEWS <?N THE UNDERTAKING.

[By Electric Telegraph—copyright) [Per Press Association.! London, January 5.

Mr Mosman, who was a member of Bruce’s expedition, expresses the opinion that Sir Ernest Shackleton’s chief difficulty will he in traversing an area of pack ice, of possibly 1100 miles, along the route. Captain Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, telegraphed to Sir Ernest Shackleton his warmest wishes for a magnificent undertaking. Sir Ernest Shackleton, in an interview, approved Dr.. Marshall’s sug- 1 gestion. As day and night in the Antarctic are merely artificial distinctions, a nineteen hours’ day should he adopted, saving thirty-five hours a week. He added: “We abolish the clock, the calender/ everything except the sun. We are testing a new metal with a view to saving thirty pounds per sledge, enabling us to carry six hundred pounds more of stores and food.”