HUGE COST

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 18, 16 August 1928, Page 5

HUGE COST

BYRH'G EXPEDITION, MILLION DOLLARS EXPEDITION A STUPENDUOUS UNDERTAKING United Prefi S Assn.—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. (Received 11.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, Augu S 1 15. Byrdr's Anlartic exped.\tioai startv ing frotn New York next month will lie the most stupendous undertaking in the history of exploration. It marks what Americans call the entry of explorers into the million dollars field. Two thirds of the million hare already been secured in cash and equipment. The total expense of Byrd's North Pole expedition two years ago was thirty thousand .sterling. For the present expedition the two aeroplanes cost fourteen thousand sterling just 'about the same cost as the two old ships which the expedition secured. —Australian Press Assn. United Service.