CLAIM DENIED

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1939, Page 9

CLAIM DENIED

ARGENTINA IN ANTARCTIC

READY TO CO-OPERATE

(Received July 29, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, July 28

j The Argentine Embassy denied that Argentina is claiming Antarctic areas but has merely established a committee to study Antarctic problems, which will co-operate with any nations that (are interested.

j A message from New York published jon Monday stated: The Buenos Aires ' correspondent of the "New York Times'" says Argentina will make a strong bid for ownership of approximately a seventh of the Antarctic region at the international conference of Arctic explorers at Bergen, Norway, in 1940. She is preparing vigorously to oppose any attempt by the United States to extend the Monroe Doctrine into the Antarctic regions as a result of the new Byrd expedition. At the same time, Argentina will dispute British claims to the. South Orki ney Islands, South Georgia, South j Shetland Island, Grahamland, and all I other islands in the vicinity of the i Weddell Sea. Argentina claims sove- ! reignty over an area which embraces more than a quarter of the region to which .Admiral Byrd assigned the Monroe Doctrine, contending that this region, clear to the South Pole, is a natural geographic dependency of the South American continent.