POLAR EXPLORATION
WILKINS'S SUBMARINE
RIDICULED BY GERMAN
(Received 10th December, 10 a.m.)
BEELIN, 9th December. Writing in the "Berliner Tageblatt," Professor Oswald Flamm warns Sir Hubert Wilkins of the folly of attempting polar exploration in a submarine. He describes the whole project as absurd, and asks how Wilkins is going to rise to the surface to recharge his accumulators. He points out that the indicator with which he hopes to keep in touch with the air would be destroyed by blasting the ice cover. The other idea of -fitting a bow buffer was nonsensical, because the buffer would have a weight of 450 tons, and would upset all calculations of speed and trim.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 11
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113POLAR EXPLORATION Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 11
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