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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18415, 23 June 1925, Page 9

AMUNDSEN'S POLAR FLIGHT. Even under the most _ favourable? weather conditions, a flight to tho North Pole is a most hazardous undertaking. Just how hazardous it actually is is realised by few, but Captain Haakon Hammer's comments offer enlightenment. His opinion was given before the flight had been completed •and at a time when tho world was anxiously awaiting news of .Amundsen, believing he had been forced to land in the Polar Sea,. Captain Haakon Hammer is a Danish aviator, and accompanied Captain Amundsen to within 400 miles of the Pole two years *go. He declared (according to cab-led advice received on May 24th) that landing in the vicinity of tho Pole must be suicidal because of the rough ice. "Even if they managed to descend, how could they rise again?" he asks. He thinka that tho expedition has not more than one chance in 100 of returning. "Tkero Are terrifying hummocks of ice all about. If anything happens to their aeroplanes they are gone, as water intervenes between the Polar region and any route- of escape to Alaska or Siberia." In view of this the intrepid Amundsen has surely added another 'remarkable success to his achievements by doing tho seemingly impossible. Tho British Imperial Oil Co., Ltd., were entrusted with the arrangements for petrol supplies, and "Shell" Spirit was used by Amundsen throughout his remarkable expedition. —0 SUCCESSFUL LIBRARIES. KEEP UP TO DATE. Many librarians havo already availed themselves of the wonderful selection of Library Volumes at Isitt's. Others havo ordered parcels to bo sent on approval. From one and all comes a chorus of satisfaction. If you want, your library resuscitated, send your order to Isitt's, where the good books are. Catalogue sent on request and a liberal discount is allowed. L. M. Isitt, Ltd., Printers, Booksellers and Stationers, 112 Cashel street. 143i)l