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EXPLORERS’ HOPES ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION [By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyrLgni] Received May 11, 9 50 p.m. MONTREAL, May 11. A message from Providence says (hat liaruid Juwe, speaking at the jhhiu.ii dinner of the .British Veterans’ Associati.'n of Rhode Kan I, revetiled that he and Lincoln Ellsworth v. c.e planning a joint expedition to the Antarctic in the hope of linding what they thought to be the last remaining continent in the world. He said that the expedition would be attempted iu two or three years when new equip meat was d«.Jgned, including a traeto) to carry two aeroplanes and so traver.se the ice as far as possible and then take io bae air to the new continent, which they hope to claim for the United Th-e area is about a third of the size of Australia and is on a straight line through the {South I’Ojc frciu Little America.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 111, 12 May 1936, Page 7
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