aks at sen ect as tet ae eno tat Seal ies Serpe tnt Waenng sac' ote ete sih Sire oe mes at Nautilus have been able to effect Seles eat od tae The submarine is not able to prote comme, Prance and England before proceeding to Spitzbergen where a SEP OUrES ind seas to the North Pole.
Future plans for the Nautilus be announced until the Submarine reaches) Queenstown and until after Captain Wilkins has been able to com-with the financial. back-is venture in New York— few York, June 15.
The USS. Wyoming, which hi been standing by the Nautilus ly to give any assistance which might be required, has now taken the submarine in tow.
It is believed that the Nautilus be towed to Queenstown.
Washington, June 16.
The Navy Department has receiv-message from the battleship yining saying that all is going on the Nautilus and that mer wre busy repairing the submarines engines and charging her batteries, It is indicated by the Navy De-went that no charge will be for towing the Nautilus, [Shipping men estimate that the cost lof the tow would be about $40,000.
Friedrichshafen, June 17.
Dr. Hugo Eckener, designer, builder, and commander of Germany's' giant dirigible, the Graf Zeppelin, in an interview with the United Press here to-day declared that it will be impossible for the airship to meet the American submarine, the Nautilus, at the North Polo this year.
'The scheduled meeting of the Graf Zeppelin and the Nautilus in 1931 Jat the top of the world must be Jabandoned, Dr. Eckener said, because the' polar submarine cannot be repaired in time to make its scheduled Arctic explorations under the command of Captain Sir Hubert likins.
However, Dr. Eckener said, he will undertake a flight to the North Pole in the Graf Zeppelin this year if the necessary financial backing is secured soon. He said that, soon the will open negotiations with a representative of Soviet Russia who desirous of furnishing financial [support for a Graf Zeppelin flight to the North Pole.
If his arrangements work out on schedule, Dr, Eckener said, he hopes to start his flight to the North Pole the Graf Zeppelin on July 20. /He will refuel at Leningrad and then proceed on a five or six days jeraise over Franz Josef Land and Nicholas LI Land, In the event that fall financial backing is not secured Dr. Eekener will make his Graf Zeppelin flight lover Franz Josef Land and Nicholas {Land anyway. He will not Jattempt~to reach the North Pole, however, on such a fight.
On the flight to the Arctic regions which the Graf Zeppelin will start, on. July 20 Dr. Eckener be accompanied by German, Russian jand Swedish scientists.
Eckener' to-day expressed: deep regret over the accident to the Nautilus—United Press, London, June 18.
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