[English] EXPEDITION TO THE ANTARCTIC. RED INDIAN AND BOY SCOUTS WISH TO TAKE PART.

EXPEDITION TO THE ANTARCTIC.

RED INDIAN AND BOY SCOUTS WISH TO TAKE PART.

Commander John L. Cope, the organiser of the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition, which is to embark on the Terra Nova next June, is now inviting applications from scientists to join him on his five years' cruise to extend our scientific and commercial knowledge of the South Polar regions.

He particularly desires to hear from fully-qualified men in the following branches of scientific knowledge:

Geology,

Meteorology,

Biology,

Photography.

Surgery, and Physiology

Cartography, and Hydrography.

His party will number 51-17 shore work and 34 in the ship - and will include a number of Scott's and Shackleton's men. Among numerous applications to join the expedition are several from women - one of them a demobilised W.R.E.N. - who are willing to undertake any kind of useful work so long as they can share in the great adventure. "Of course we have had to refuse their requests," said the Commander to a Daily News representative, "though I have induced them to take up at home the work of knitting Balaclava helmets and other woollen comforts."

"I have also had lots of letters from absolute youngsters of no experience, including some Boy Scouts. They are very keen to go, but I need scarcely add that we cannot accept them.

"Applications have come from Spain, Norway, Russia, and Canada. In the last category is one from a Red Indian, who says that his little trails with dog teams in the snows of Northern Canada have trained him for such hardships as the expedition will have no face. He asks me, in his broken English, to let him know whether I can accept him, so that he can get himself fit, if necessary, to travel 500 miles a day - an impossible distance in the time. He adds that he has a 6 1/4 in. chest expansion, and hopes to extend it to 7 inches.

Before it leaves Britain the Terra Nova will visit the chief ports of the country. In the interval it will be fitted with oil engines and another deck to convert it into a "flush-deck ship."

Source:

1. Page 8, "Hongkong Telegraph", Tuesday, 25th November, 8th Year of the Republic of China

   • 4th Day, 10th Lunar Month, Ji-wei Year

   • Tuesday, 25th November, 1919 Common Era