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NAVY SECRETARY PLEASED.
(Received 18th January, 12.30' p.m.)
WASHINGTON, 17th January. Commenting on the Shenandoah's safe return, Mr. ■ Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, said that she had fully qualified herself to - undertake the Polar trip by her midnight flight. The Shenandoah had demonstrated that tho mooring facilities were adequate in the most unusual weather, and ;is long as she had fuel and provisions, she wa3 safe in the air. "It is-hardly "possible," he said, "that the Shenandonh will encounter on tho Arctic expedition any test so severe a s that which she has already met so successfully."
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 15, 18 January 1924, Page 7
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