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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1937.

TO THE POLE BY SUBMARINE

Sir Hubert Wilkins On His "Plans To Torpedo" the World

Even Infants to Be Protected in Britain By Latest Gas Mask

· Government to Distribute 30,000,000 Free Dur- ing This Year as Part of Elaborate Plans for Home Defence

London, Feb. 14.

Great Britain announced to-day perfection of a gas mask which -can be used even by babies-intest symbol of the completeness with which

the Government is tackling the problem of home defence.

Huge expenditures for navy and force, 585 planes, will attempt to alr armaments will put Britain in a prevent bombings. powerful position to combat enemies The population is being instructed] anywhere by 1938. But before that regularly on best means of protec-i the twin problems of protectiontion. The total strength of the ter- against air raids and guaranteed foodritorial army is to be increased from supplies at home are being pushed 130,000 to 160,073 mien.

to immediate solution.

Geoffrey

the Home

cently

would be

Lloyd,

omer,

under-secretary in

30,000,000

mec, who disclosed re-

Kos masin distributed free throughout Britain in 1937, announced the baby mask development.

The new protector, he sald, is nullable for use by the smallest in- | font.in the event of hostile air raida.

SITUATION IS ALTERED During the Great War there were comparatively few air raid casual- ties. Development of airplanes and long-range bombers, ofcials em- phasized to-day, now would permit destructive raids on London, as well as on ships transporting food supplies.

As a result, plans are under way to build up food reserves, designed to assure

and a supply of bread

months. other foodstuffs for six

of wheat accumulation

Gradual

and other reserves is being consi sidered by the newly-constituted Food Defence Plans Department,

SYSTEM

LOOKOUT

The gas mask distribution is only part of the anti-war rald protection, A system has been installed to give quick notice of the arrival of enemy airplanes along the coast. A balloon Tookout system and a defensive air

SCHOOLBOY, 15, MAY FLY ATLANTIC

FATHER and fifteen-year-old son I will probably By a "third-hand" 230 m.p.h. 'plane in Augurt's £30,000 international New York-Parls race. Senior plot of the partnership is

Lawrence "Tommy" Mr.

Lipton wealthy forty-year-old metal mer- chant. He has brought from the British Air Ministry the £10.000 Comet but to help Scott and Black win the 1934 Melbourne race.

He hopes to have John Lipton, his schoolboy son, in the back seat.

MARRIAGE SERVICE

SPEEDED

Turlock, Cal., Feb. 10. Justice Dan E. Kilroy has solved the problem of not allowing urgent marriages to slow the wheels of justice. He has perfected a "short marriage service" for couples who appear during a trial.

1885: Began

Courting

UNDER THE ICE'

ROUTE

1937: Wed IN PEARY'S TRACKS

FIFTY-TWO years ago Mr. Edward

Easton and Mas Alice Blyth, both

of Sprowston, near Norwich, began courting. They were married at Sprowston, this month. Mr. Eastoe is seventy-two, his bride seventy- OBC.

Their romance began when they were servants forether at Old Catton. Then Miss Blyth went to Brighton and later broke off correspond- ence. Her employer thought the couple were too young to marry.

Miss Blyth became a stewardess' in Atlantio iners and retired after twenty-two years' service, Mr. Eastor had been a widower for nine years when they met again last year.

White Frog, 870 Feet Below

Earth's Surface

EXTRAORDINARY FIND N GOLD MINE

Afiners working at the 870-ft. level of a gold mine, near Bendigo, re- ceived a surprise when + live, crystal-white frog jumped out of an aperture in the reef. It was Jelly- like in appearance, and semi-trans- parent. After it was brought to the surface and exposed to the sun, it died, says Austral News.

Well-informed that this

mining men

the greatest depth at which a frog er any other animal or repille has been found.

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ON

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

NE of London's most interesting visitors at present is Commander Sir Hubert Wilkins, who is in process of organising his most ambitious visit to the Far North by submarine.

Sir Hubert, however, will not be able to say until later in the month whether he will be able to take de- livery of a new submarine in time to set out for the North Pole this spring, or whether he will have to post- pone the expedition for another year.

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Manufacturers are so busy that they cannot supply him with the type of engine he requires under four months; ship-builders cannot guarantee delivery of steel for his submarine under four months..

If Sir Hubert is to sail this year, the vessel the building time actually would not take more than two and a half months- should be ready for trials by May 1, to set out from Spitsbergen about July 1 so as to take advantage of the best conditions.

sub-

Moreover, Sir Haberi has found any ordinary submarine and the that prices have gone up by at least submersible vessel that I will have 35 per cent. in the last three months. constructed, for I prefer to describe In all his expeditions he has pro- it as such rather than us a vided more than 50 per cent, of the marine. I want a good boat which actual cost, and in the prosent one I can tum over to athers to carry he is responsible for £20,000; yet on the work, and the craft I have in increased costs are proving another mind-one in which there will be a deterrent factor. If he is beaten by maximum οι convenience and, hig presen: difficulties, he regards possibly, a minimum of comfort— the work to be done in the Polar will be of 210 tons when submerged. regions of such importance that he 74 ft. in length, 14 ft. diameter, with will at once begin replanning for

n 2 ft square keel. 1938.

THE SAFEST YET

"The hull will be of a-in. steel and cannot be crushed, and submer- " is the safest expedition I have gence will not be more than 50 ft. ever planned," he assured me, "and Everything will be simple, for the people who visualise that we shall vessel will be practically only a

fitted with one

engine, one get hemmed in by the lee simply do shell, not understand conditions. "The dynamo-one propelling motor, and element of risk is far less than in Inrge storage battery. There will 1931, when we went to the Aretic be no deck fillings or special cabin in the 13-year-old American sub-fittings or auxiliaries. All the selen- marine Nautilus.

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"There are no diving rudders or periscope; auxiliary machinery is entirely absent. Our wireless will bo operated when we are on surface-about twelve hours ench daybut, when submerged, we can get contact up to 608 miles by using great power.

WHEN THE POLE IS REACHED

"When we leave Spitsbergen we shall voyage at an average of fifty miles each day until we reach the Behring Sen. I intend to spend several days at the Pele, and then to turn in the direction of Ellesmere land to determine whether land that Peary and Macmillan believe they saw actually exists-land which Dr. Cook claims to have photographed.

"That area has been approached by three flying expeditions without suc- cess, and reconnaisance of this area by aeroplane is definitely dangerous, for the ice here is quite different to the Ice of the Antarelle, and if you land may crack at any moment. As it is also not possible to get within several hundred miles of this area

arca by

a Bur face vessel, the submarine seems to be the only other alternative.

is

"The use of the submersible vessel

not nearly as difcuit as people Imagine. We keep below the ice and by our bunyancy come to the surface between the flocs. We can see 50 yards ahead. Nor is it cold, and we And that the ice, at best or worst. is rarely more than 14 to 15 feet thick, while Polar travellers agree that the average thickness Is one to two feet. I have found that by submarine you can get round an 'ared in two weeks which would take two months in the normal way.

"There is much work to be done on the way, including the recording of occan depths; the contents of the water, both animal and vegetable; measurements of gravity, which are becoming more and more important In the world of science; and magnetic obscrvations. In fact, we shall pur- sue every type of Polar Investigation that has been carried out before, and other types as well, and we shall carry them out under conditions of greater comfort and convenience.

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"As regards personnel, we shall be seven all told. Not all of my com- panions have been chosen; but there should be little trouble on that score | as," Sir, Hubert snid with a laugh. "I have had more than 4,000 applica- tions.

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SIMPLE ARRANGEMENTS, “Remember, that the working of this submersible vessel will not re- semble in any way the complicated handling of an ordinary submarine. Moreover, there are only two hatches to be seen to, and the arrangements are so simple that the actual physical labour will be alight, although, na- turally, our work will be continuous. Our forward movement will be limit- led to twelve hours a day. when we

ahall be under ice or water.

"When people talk of risk, they for- got that there are great, stretches of open water near the Pole and actually at the Pole at certain times, and with my previous experience in the Nautilus, I can confidently assert that the expedillon

organising will,

without doubt, be the safest in which I have been engaged,"

Sircu

Hubert ablo oculties and hopes to be

present

is philosophile about his

to, make his decision to set out this year or next year-within the next fortalght. But the job, he in- pists, must be done.

"It is a job I have had in mind for a long time," be confided, "and it has been delayed for the last 307 years. ever alace it was Arst mooted by John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester."

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