Oslo, May 12. polar explorer, Dr, Willinger, is in Oslo. on his, way to Bergen to join the Sir Hubert Wi-kins polar' expedition in the sub. expedition will not plunge precipitately—into adventures but first will carry out extensive tests before thinking of Jentering the Polar basin. The tests will be sk Svalbard and along. the ledge of the Polar ice cap.
The results of these tests may] necessitate the postponement of the rip. to the North Pole until next jvear but if tests are thoroughly, satisfactory it may be possible to make a trip to the North Pole and return to Svalbard this summer, leaving the trip across to Alaska until next year.
Dr. Villinger speaks of an inter-Jesting experiment that will be tried Jat the North Pole. He sai Nautilus fines the airship Graf Zeppelin, which is also going to the JAretic, at the Pole an attempt will jue made to exchange members of ithe crews of airship and submarine:
order to prove whether it is possi ble ko station and relieve a meteorofiogical expedition at the North} Pole—Through Reuter.
Friedrieshafen, May 17.
Interviewed regarding the forth nection with Sir Herbert Wilkins? submarine expedition, Dr. Eckener declared that personally he would have preferred to undertake the flight not" before next year when the new.and much larger Zeppelin airship has been finished which is destined for a regular air-service between Germany' and Ame However, in view of the much desired cooperation with the Nautilus, he' could not postpone this year' Aight. As regards the prospects of the submarine expedition in the Arctic seas, Dr. Eckener expressed himself somewhat pessimisticall adding his sincere hope that all wi well and the crew of the submarine mot suffer an even more dreadful fate than did so many cour-Jageous men in attempts to solve the riddle of the Aretie—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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