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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--latest symbol of the completeness with which) the Government is tackling the problem of home defence.

Huge expenditures for navy and force, 885 planes, will attempt to sir armaments will put Britain in of prevent bombings.

The population powerful position to combat enemies

being instrueled anywhere by 1939. But before that regularly on best means of protec-i the twin problema of protection tlon. The total strength of the ter- against air raids and guaranteed food ritorial army is to be increased from

at home are being pushed 130,000 to 150,573 men.

solution.

to

Lloyd, under-secretary in Offer, who disclosed re- the cently that 30,000,000 gas masks would be distributed free throughout Britain in 1937, announced the baby mask development.

The new protector, he said, is suitable for use by the smallest in- fant, in the event of hostile nir raids.

SCHOOLBOY, 15, MAY FLY ATLANTIC

TMTHEN ·and fifteen-year-old son will probably fly a “third-hand” (230 m.p.li. 'plane in August's £30,000 International New York-Paris race,

SITUATION IS ALTERED During the Great Wur there were comparatively few air raid casual- ties. Development of airplanes and Senior pilot of the partnership is long-range bombers, oficiala em- Mr. Lawrence "Tommy" Lipton, phasized to-day, now would permit wealthy forty-year-old metal mer- destructive mids on London, as chant. Ife has brought from the well as on ships transporting food British Ale supplies.

to other

As a result, plans are under way to build up food reserves, designed a supply of bread and assure

foodstuffs for six months. Graduat accumulation of wheat and other reserves is being consi- sidered by the newly-constituted Food Defence Plans Department,

LOOKOUT SYSTEM

Ministry the £10,000 Comet bulit 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. 19. Justice Dan E. Kilroy has solved the The gas mask distribution is only part of the anti-war rald protection, problem of not allowing urgent A system has been installed to give marriages to slow the wheels of quick notice of the arrival of enemy justice. He has perfected a "short A balloon marriage service" for couples who nirplanes along the coast,

lockout system and a defensive ufroppear during a trial.

1885: Began

Courting

1937: Wed

FIFTY-TWO years ago Mr. Edward

Eartoo and Miss Alice Blyth, both

of Sprowston, near Norwich, began

courting. They were married at Sprowston, this month. Mr. Easton Is seventy-two, his bride seventy-. onc.

Their romance began when they were servants together at Old Calton. Then Allas Blyth went to Brighton and Inter broke of correspond- ence. Her employer thought the couple were too young to marry.

Miss Blyth became a stewardess in Atlantic liners and retired after twenty-two Укаги 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

Miners working at the 870-ft. level of a gold mine, near Bendigo, re- celved 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, died, says Austral News.

Well-informed mining men

'UNDER THE ICE'

ROUTE

IN PEARY'S TRACKS

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

ONE soft is Co's most i Sir Wilkins,

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.

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.

his

the

If Sir Hubert is to sail this year, the vessel the bullding 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,

Moreover, Sir Hubert has found any ordinary submarine and 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 as a sub- vided more than 50 per cent, of the marine. I want a good boat which petual cost, and in the present one I can turn over to others 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

of Dymaximum

convenience

and, present 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

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kcel. square 1938.

"The hull will be of 3⁄4-in, steel THE SAFEST YET·

and cannot be crushed, and submer- "It 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 # get hemmed in by the ice simply do shell, fitted with one engine, one nol understand conditions, The dynamo, one propelling motor, and clement of risk is far less than in a large storage battery. There will 1931, when we went to the Arctic be no deck attings or special cabin the 13-year-old American sub-fittings or auxiliories, All the selen- marine Nautilus.

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"There are no diving rudders or periscope; auxiliary machinery is entirely absent. Our wireless will be operated when we are on the surface about twelve hours each day--but, when submerged, we can Het cont

contact get conta up to 600 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 Sea. I intend to spend several days at the Pole, 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 -flying-expeditions-without-sur- cess, and reconnaisance of this are

area by aeroplane is

is definitely dangerous, for the ice here is quite different to the

thres

ice of the Antarctic, and if you land

any momentin several |

may crack at

also not possible to get bundred miles of this

area

As it is

by a sur- face vessel, the submarine seems to be the only other alternative,

"The use of the submersible vessel

is not nearly as diflcult as people imagine. We keep below the fee and by our buoyancy come to the surface between the flocs. We can see 50 yards ahead. Nor is cold,

and And that the ice, at best or worst, is rarely more than 14 to 15 feet thick, while Polur travellers agree that the average thickness is one to two feet. I have found that by submarine you can get round an area in two weeks which would take two months in the normal way.

WRIC

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

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

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 hafches to be seen to, and the arrangements are so simple that the actual physicat Jabour will be slight, although, -na- turally, our work will be continuous. Our forward movement will be limit- ed to twelve hours a day when we shall be under, ice or water.

"When people talk of risk, they for-| get that there are great stretches of open water near the Pale and actually at the Pole at certain times, and with my_previous experienced the Nautilus, I can confidently assert that the expedition I am organising will, | without doubt, be the

I

have been enginenfest in which Sir Hubert is philosophic about his present

ent dimculties and hopes to be able to make his decision-to set out Ulila year. next year within the next fortnight. But the job, ho in sists, must be done.

It is a job I have had in mind for

a long time," he confided, and it has been delayed for the last 387 yenra over since it was Brst mooted by John. Wilkins, Blahop of Chester,"

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