THE SOUTH POLE.
LIEUT. FILCHNER EXPLAINS. HOES NOT WANT TO JUMP THE CLAIMS OF OTHERS. Received March 13, 5 p.m. LONDON, March 12. Lieut. Filchner, interviewed, said he did not wish to jump the claim of either the British or Americans. He would leave the discovery of the South Pole to those rivals. Lieut. Filchner's object is to verify the theory that the Antarctic land consists of two islands divided by an arm of the sea.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9993, 14 March 1910, Page 5
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76THE SOUTH POLE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9993, 14 March 1910, Page 5
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