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GAPTAIN AMUNDSEN'S EXPEDITION
REASON.FOR HIS CHANGE OF PLANS.
(Received Last Night, 10.45 o'clock.)
STOCKHOLM, April 5
Captain Amundsen has written to the Committee of the Fram Expedition, apologising for not communicating to them his changed plans. His reason for secrecy was that he was apprehensive that the Committee would endeavour to dissuade him. The motive of the change was the hopo that the discovery of the South Pole would induce his countrymen to accord him sufficient financial support for a North Pole expedition. -
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10206, 6 April 1911, Page 5
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94THE ANTARCTIC Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10206, 6 April 1911, Page 5
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