UNDER THE ICE
AVI LKIXS’ CON EIDENCE. 'United Press Association.—By Eleotrio Telegraph.—Copyright. 1 NEW YORK, March 20. While others may scoff at. this expedition as “foolhardy,” Sir IL Wilkins', to-day pointed opt that sixty npplit,ants have been received for the quartermaster’s post (rendered vacant by the recent drowning of the former holder; Grimmer. . . The 'explorer, said: “The fact that fifty or sixty ox.perietiee.fi submarine men are not only willing, Inn anxious, tq make, the adventure shows that, they have some faith that we will reach tfi n North Pole and return successfully on our.trip under the ice.” No successor to the late Quartermaster, Grimmer, lias yet been clmse,n. The applicants are subject to the most severe tests as to physique, personality end experience. The “Nnutilius” will not undergo •>nv diving trial as at first planned. Ini,t will proceed to Yonkers, where its three ice drills, on which it will depend to gain the surface under the ice, will be tested.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1931, Page 3
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