TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1923.
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FIGHT FOR LIFE.
AMUNDSEN'S POLAR ATTEMPT..
THE CHINA MAIL.
1 lending article on Captain Amundson's flight, "The Times"
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make an ice-bridgo rows which it might be possible to steer it on to the foe.
HIGH PLACK IN STORY OF AROTO EXPLORATION,
forward, they made 100, 200, 800, vurds, nearing the end of the truck with their speed not yet åt full, but, "In the afternoon, while they sufficient for jumping over the ice were engaged on this work after a lune 0.ft. wide and taking the lat fruitless" seurale for the N.24, the jump from the following floe, know cheering sight of the other threeing all the time that the foe might making their way towards them give way at any moment, and so, Here the new ice was followed by after these moments of suspana, Thull story of the perilous cries for help. It turned out after air at last, confident, says Captain their sudden disappearance and found themselves suddenly in the expedition of Juptain Amundsen and his five companiona wards that the ice had given way Amodson, in their engines that! renched England yesterday, and is under Dietrichsen und Omdal, and they considered themselves, already pallished in our columns this mort, llsworth and the safety waistcoats
that only the presence of mind of fat home. 1 more than confirms the Best bastily formed impressions of which they wore purchased by a the magnitude of the difficulties happy chance at the last moment. and dangers of their adventure und
before leaving land-had prevented of this spirit of unfalling confidence them from being swept under by the and courage by which alone they current, were able to surmount them.
**After that the combined exer Over and over again there were tons of the six men were devoted graphical explanation of the cenn-by following a line which day after day for more than threw Norwegian section of the Arctic the stoulast heart might well Eave weeks to the apparently, hopeless wald enible them to observe areas en driven to despair. From the 23 and, alternatively, at oneed. The mere fact that they did task of making a road over which hitherto undiscovered and unchart: very first they were fully aware of the danger that they were facing Almen as se
as they emerged from the bank of fog in which their journey began they realised that it was even graver than they had sup posed,
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18,227
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9128
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8,819
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0,135
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0.144
28th Nov.
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8,985
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10,911
10th Dec. 13th Dec.
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9,000
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11.080
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0,114
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8,097 10,041
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DESTINATION
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tim, the N.21 might in able to get sufficiently long run: to stari on ita homeward flight,
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But the risks which they did eu CALCUTTA via Singapore & Rangoon, counter and survive. and the they showed it facing them, were courage and resourcefulness which sufficient in themselves to win for
By repeated lucking, sawing, was made, and track siter truck was and trampling, track after truck destroyed by the screwing of the pack ica: or, on the other hand, their mand see, stretched an illimitable formation of new lee, too thin to vista of ke and snow, with no spice bear the weight of the machino visible between the solid walls of when they tried instead to rise from pek ice on which there was any the water. Once Riiser-Larsen was prospect, in case of need, of their just in time to call the rest out to Wlios, Case Blanes, Loudon A'werp being able to make a safe descent, save the scaplane, when the hull All forecasts as to the possibility of was creaking and groaning and ensy landing in those inhospitable some of the plates giving way under
to be the strain of the ice-pressure.. Ts were quickly seen
Before them, as far as the eye hopes were thsappointed by the their endeavour a high place in the
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8,000
8th Jan.
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4,500
3rd Feb.
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story of Arctic exploration."
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A gentleman about to embark on a voyage home, met an old lady on the quay side prostrate with grief. He made sympathe- tic inquiries and found that she could not get a berth on the ship, which would mean she would not My diary, writes Captain "Yet with the realisation of the Amundsen, on the occasion of one be able to see her daughter, who
dying. gretnyss of the hazard. on the of these crises, 'records the situa
He straightway wond day of the venture, the ion as ugly. Our lives, he says offered her his berth, which she rent ressity for the apparently at another bad moment, were now gracefully accepted. He decided impresible descent came upon them in the balance. And yet, through to leave by the next week's boat
erroneous.
wares. The N.20. in which were Arundsen, Feucht, and the pilet. Rii-er-Larsen, was cbliged to me down for two reasons. At one 'ekek on the morning of May 22. with half their store of petrol con- stmed, they had to determine their position by observations which ander the special conditions of mvigating so close to the Pole, could not be mude while they wore in the air and there was also trouble, dne to air leakage, in one of the engines. ย
Jane
Was
it all, in spite of the constant and to write to his wife the cause, danger and the growing improbabili. and forwarded the following:- ty as to their ever being able to get
"Darling, Postponed voyage. away-in spite, too, of the fact Given berth to an old lady. that they were at the time on very
Hubby," short rations--they seem never to have given up hope, and were able to sing and to joke even when the prospect was as bad as it well could
be.
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"WEST KADER" Voyaga N. 16/65 Out.,
"Besides the strain of this con- tinual struggle to extricate their machine, in which, day after day, they never relaxed their efforts, In the same way the N.24, with they were subconsciously or actual Ellsworth, Dietrichsen, and Omdal is through it all, considering the on board, had been injured, and only alternative plan of escape by Find sprang & leak owing to the the long overland trek, some four mistaken energy of those who had or five bandred miles in length, to helped it to start. Until it was Caps Columbie. But fortunately on 6,968 | Sad Bept. Manila, Sandakan Thursday Island,led up on a floe, seputed from June 15, the day which almost having arrived from above ports, Towaryllis, Brisbane, Sydney and the water-lune on which the sister from the beginning had been settled in August 12th, 1925, Consigners hi hud alighted by a high ice- in their minds as the latest date on ire hereby requested to present wall, it was only kept afloat by which they must decide whether or their Bills of Lading in exchange constant pumping. Rompromising not to give up the idea of trying to for Delivery Orders, and take as a landing place was the water escape by way of the air, their immediate delivery from alongside
which Riiser-Larsen wonderful patience and determina-steamer, Dietrichsen; the pilot of the other "The story of how on June 11, 12, brought down the N.26 that tion were at length rewarded. machine, ignorant of the needs by and 13 they tramped, tramped which he was impelled, could only humped, to complete their last conclude that he was mad to choose attempt at road-making, only to |find on Juno 15 that a third of the trick was flooded, is a fitting climax to that part of their adven tures when they were stranded on the floes. In a last desperate effort they reduced the land which the machine was to carry by jettisoning everything that was not absolutely indispensable and then, at the supreme moment, the engines were started, the machine glided slowly
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MOSIRĦOPPA
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7,921
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8,000
10,941
18th Sept
6,094
2,135
6,822
"ST. ALBANS
4,500
+ MANTUA "
10,908
"KALYAN
9,144
TANDA"
6,969
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13,911
14th Nov.
"KASHMIR"
6.885
"KASHGAR
0,006
Bath Now
"SOUDAN"
*6,698
8th Nov.
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9,000
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8,114
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10,941
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