HEART OF NEW GUINEA.
AMERICAN EXPEDITION. STUDY OF NATIVE LIFE. AEROPLANE TO BE USED. Telegraph—Press Assn.; —Copyright. Received Nov. 3, 5.5 p.m. New York, Nov. 2. Speaking at Berkeley, California, Professor Matthews Stirling, ethnologist attached to the Smithsonian Institution, declared that the failure of two previous expeditions attempting the penetration of Dihch New Guinea aroused no apprehension in his mind, as he was prepared to combat the causes of the failures, namely, tropical fevers and hostile natives by the use of an airplane. Professor Stirling and his party leave San Francisco on November 12 on board the Van Buren. A supply base Kill be established on the south coast of New; Guinea while the airplane is being reassembled. The Dutch Government provides a military escort. Professor Stirling expects to stay in New Guinea six months, studying the pygmies and collecting hitherto unknown species of anima) and plant life.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1925, Page 7
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148HEART OF NEW GUINEA. Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1925, Page 7
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