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THE POLAR FLIGHT.
[Reuters Telegrams.l STORM MISSKS I’OUAH BASIN', (llcceivcd this clay at 9.2") i.rn.) , LONDON. .May 20. A copyright wireless from the Fram at fspitzliergcn, dated the 20th., two ji.m., states: The situation is unchanged. Cloud living weather still prevails over the polar hasin. ApprcIten.sion oil this s:ore has been removed as the had weather which was approaching from Siberia is now reported to b L . moving eastward and is unlikely to tio north. The visibility here is good and clear. AXOTHKi: OPINION'. SYDNEY. May 27. Captain Harris, meteoroiogii al oflicer. in the employ of the Canadian (iuverninent and a memher of the company of the lid. who is at present in Sydney, referring to Captain Amundsen expressed the opinion that neither the petrol engine nor the aeroplane itselt had reached a stage of |>eflection that would warrant such a risk being taken. Starting off the engines of the plane would function hut if stopped, as plane engines have a happy knack of doing, nothing in the Arctic would start them again. Even in our temperate climate' on it fold morning motorists find difficulty in starling their engines. Me quoted as an instance Scott’s motor sledges in the Antarctic which worked all right till they stopped. They then ceased forever.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1925, Page 3
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