FEARS FOR EXPEDITION
GREENLAND ICE CAP TRIP. NO NEWS FROM SLEDGE PARTY. (British Wireless.) Rugby, Aug. 30. Because of the absence of news, fears are expressed in reports from Copenhagen regarding the safety of a sledge expedition led by Lieut. Martin Lindsay across the Greenland ice cap. When the motor-ship Gertrude Rask left Angmagssalik, the expedition was regarded as premature by Lieut. Lindsay’s friends, who state that they did not expect him to reach his objective until the middle of next month.
It is believed that the rations will be sufficient, for members of the expedition to hold out for the full three months they expected the journey of 1000 miles would take. The expedition carried no wireless. The Greenland Administration states that another motor-ship calls at Angmagssalik in a few days’ time, and the British schooner Jacent is still fishing near the East Greenland coast and has been given permission by wireless to go to Angmagssalik. Lieutenant Lindsay, who has two companions, began the journey across the ice cap about June 8. He carried ten weeks’ food. Although there is yet no cause for anxiety, news of the expedition’s arrival on the east coast is eagerly awaited.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1934, Page 7
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