An Imperial Work.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 100, 30 December 1913, Page 5

An Imperial Work.

ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

SHACKLETON'S FRIEND.

[By Eleothio Telegraph—Oopybight] [United Press Association.}

London, December 29.

Sir Ernest Shackieton, the famous Antarctic explorer, announces that the generosity of a friend will enable him to leave South America in 1914 and cross the South Polar regions, returning via New Zealand. He will designate the expedition the Imperial Trans-Arctic believing that the kinsmen of all lands in the Empire will assist. s

THE APPLICATIONS TO JOIN.

PEER WILL BE COOK'S BOY.

Received 8.0 a.m.) London, December 29

Sir Ernest Stackliouse states it is necessary that forty-five members of the 1914 expedition bo British subjects.

He has already received 4800 applications, mostly from the Overseas Dominions and England,

Seventeen peers applied, one being willing to become the cook's boy if no other position were available. The scientific party will include a Canadian physicist, a South African meteorologist, and New Zealand and Australian geologists.

A STAY OF TWO SEASONS.

(Received 9.15 a.m.) Sir Ernest Shackleton provides for a stay in the Antarctic for- two seasons. SHACKLETON'S PLANS. LARGE USE OF OIL. (Received 11.65 a.m.) London, December 29. Shackleton leaves Buenos Aires early in October and hopes his trans-Antarc-tic party, consisting of six men and 120 dogs, will start in the beginning of. November and complete the journey in five months. He intends to use ordinary sledges driven by aeroplane engines and propellors. He will also utilise an aeroplane with clipped wings and taxi across the ice. Two oil-driven ships will be employed. One will endeavour 'to trace the continuation of the Grahamland coast southward and cruise ' during the summer towards Ross Sea. The second ship will leave Xew Zealand and land a party at Ross' Sea to meet the trans-continental party.