BRITISH INTERESTS
THE ANTARCTIC "SHOULD BE CONSOLIDATED' 1 CLAIM OF OTHERS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.! (Received July 31, 2.15 p.m.). LONDON, July 30. Mr. Ernest W. Walker, a member of the 1937-39 British Antarctic exploration expedition, urges that, in view of the dispatch of Rear-Admiral Byrd's American expedition to establish and permanently occupy three colonies, Britain should consolidate her interests starting at the end of September, because she would lose her possessions in the Western Ross Sea .dependency if America established a third colony in Little America, some hundreds of miles inside the area, of the dependency. The cost.of the British expedition was £50,000, which. was not yet forthcoming. Changes of sovereignty in the Antarctic, he said, might seriously affect the £10,000,000 British whaling industry. Germany had made an Antarctic claim early in 1939, and Russia and Japan were to send cut expedition* in the coming season.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 26, 31 July 1939, Page 10
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