JAPANESE EXPEDITION.
RETURNS TO SYDNEY. THROUGH LOSS OF DOGS. (Received Last Night, L 11.45 o'clock.) SYDNEY, May 1. Shipping circles were astonished by the arrival, late this afternoon, of the Japanese Exploring ship Kainan Maru, which recently left New Zealand in an attempt to locate the South Pole. The officers are reticent, but interviewers managed to learn that (the explorers reached Coulman Island, well within the Antarctic Circle, where they remained for four days. They lost ten out of eleven of their dogs through sickness and cold, and would hot land. They thereupon decided to return to Sydney. 1 It is stated' that/the party will maice ancthr-- Tint later.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10227, 2 May 1911, Page 5
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109JAPANESE EXPEDITION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10227, 2 May 1911, Page 5
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