Although it so nearly ended in tragedy, the flight had served its purpose. Lincoln Ellsworth reporte ed that during his flight across the Antarctic continent, he had continually seen mountains and had landed on a vast plateau, devoid of glaciers and crevasses which would provide an excellent landing ground for aircraft. This, he pointed out, would greatly facilitate the task of charting accurately the Antarctic continent.
When found, Mr. Ellsworth was suffering from frostbite, but his pilot was quite 4t—and immaculately dressed even to the handkerchief which matched his tie, The urn containing the ashes of Mr. Tomokata Iwakura, feature writer for the "Hochi" who met death on the night of October 14 when a Chinese shell struck him while he was walking on Woosung Road, in Hongkew, was sent to Japan aboard the Nagasaki Maru, the "Shanghai United News" reported.
Funeral services for the writer, according to the paper, were solemnized at the Higashi Hongan temple on Wuchang Road on Monday morning.
Approximately; 100 naval officers and leading persons of the Japanese community in Shanghai attended the services which were carried out according to Buddhist rites.
Among those present, the paper said, were Commander Yukata Fujino, representing the Commander-in-Chief of the Third Fleet, Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa; Captain Kimpei Teraoka of the Naval Attache office; Rear-Admiral Tadao Honda, the naval attache, and Mr, Masusaburo Amano, President of the Japanese Residents' Corporation.
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