The Archive · 1925

POLAR CONQUESTS

Fresh Attempts by Air to Be Made London, Aug. 23.

Evidence that the North Pole's victory over Captain Amundsen has not deterred the determination of, explorers to reach the Pole by air; is contained in telegrams from Reuter's correspondents at Oslo and Berlin.

'The former states that Captain' Amundsen and Lieutenant Rilser-Larsen have left for route to Italy to nego purchase of an airship for a 1926 Polar expedition.

Reuter's Berlin correspondent an-/nounees that prominent Germans injeluding professors, bankers and fouthers have signed an appeal for ter' subscriptions to enable Captain /Eckener, who piloted the ZR-3 to America, to build a Zeppelin for Arctic exploration—Reuter,

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