Shackleton’s Plans.
FOR POLAR EXPLORATION. TWO SECTIONS OF THE PARTY. [By Elkotrio Telegraph—CoPYEtoarj [United Press Association.] (Received 12.35 p.m.) Loudon, June 28. Sir Ernest Shackleton has invited Mr Ernest Joyce to join the forthcoming expedition. The letter states that lie proposes to direct the expedition in two sections—a Weddell Sea section and a Ros s Sea section. The party in Weddell Sea will include the trans-continental party, and the Ross Sea section will consist of six men to lay a depot at the foot of the Beardmore Glacier for the transcontinental party, who will possibly winter at Cape Evans, but this programme will only be adopted if sufiieient money is forthcoming; otherwise ' there will only be the Weddell Sea ship with one small party for the trans-continental journey.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 57, 29 June 1914, Page 5
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128Shackleton’s Plans. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 57, 29 June 1914, Page 5
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