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SIR 1. FRANKLIN’S LOG-BOOK. i"" T PLAN TO ATTEMPT RECOVERY. PREVIOUS EFFORT RECALLED. (United Press Association —Copyright.! (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, August 4. Mr Francis Pease, a young British explorer, announces’that he will make « second attempt in October to find Si’. John Franklin’s log-hook. Alone he will try to cross hundreds of miles of ice and snow and wrest from the Arctic its 90-year-old secret. Mr Pease sledged 11,000 miles in 1935 in an effort to penetrate Kiyig William Island, where Sir John Franklin was buried, but an accident ended the venture 400 miles from the objective. Mr Pease says that on the journey he hiet. an old Eskimo whose father had’ seen a body taken ashore, from Sir John Franklin’s ship.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 252, 5 August 1937, Page 5
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126ARCTIC SECRET Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 252, 5 August 1937, Page 5
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