SATURDAY.

Relies Of Former Polar Exepditions Discovered

By ALAN DONNELLY

O'I'rAWA. (CPI-Relics of three almost-forgotten polar expeditions nave been brought back to civill- ration.

They were carried from the northern fastness by two Canad- ian explorers Geoffrey l-lattersley- Smith. 30, a defence research ooarcl Arctic specialist. and Robert Blaokadar. 23, mines department geologist who also is ll. veteran iuah and tundra traveller.

The explorers returned here un- rxpectedly after four months trav- elling along an ice shelf just north from bleak and lonely El- lesmere Island. 56'.) miles from the North Pole. They were due in Oc- tober.

The historical relics British prayer hook. a piece of Admiral R. E. Pe.ar,v's United States flag and a Norwegian food cache that Capt. Roald Amundsen never reached.

Main purpose of their trip was to investigate the theory that huge ice islands in the Arctic Ocean came from Ellesmerexs ice shelf. It was the forerunner of a larger.

included I

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3. next year. Display Finds

At a press coiifereiirv Wednes- day the scientists discussed their experiences and displayed the finds ll'Ofl'l ll'l1'BC Dl'Cl'l0U5 EXCl.lTSlOllS Ill- iide the Arctic Cll'ClF.

The relics were from the Royal Navy expedition in 1875-76 under

Capt. George Naies---cloLhim;.PET'lcanadas northr-riimost. possession:

sonal effects and it prayer book found under a rotting tent east of Alert Arctic weather station se- lected as headquarters for the :rip.

They displayed. too a piece of the flag Peary later the Pole alter a rirziniatic dash in 1909. It was located in a five-foot atone cairn atop a 2.000-foot hill at Cape Columbia. With the flag was a note written by the Admzrai

.n 1906 saying he had been there.'

Hattersley-Smith hopes to return the piece of flag to Pcary's widow at Portland. Me, who made the ensign for her husband. Five other pieces of the famous flag were left oy Peary at various spots in the Arctic and three of them already iave been foiirid and sent to her.

The third collection, mostly can- ted food. was found in a cache which had been left by Godfrey Hansen in 1920 as emergency sup- plies for Amundsen! attempt to zircle the rim of the Arctic Ocean north of Europe. Asia and North America.

Amundsen. in his

unfurled at.

ship Maud.

pared to early explorers he and Blackadar had "no trouble".

"We had good equipment and foodwbetter than those early ex- peditions,” he said, pointing to the flimsy sleeping bag found from the 1875-76 Nate: expedition.

The U. S. Air Force flew the pair in April to Alert. in northern Ellesmere, by way of the U. 8. base at Thule, Greenland. They took in 7,000 pounds of supplies for themselves and two mkimo oompaniona and horeemeat for 19 husky dogs.

They were expected to remain until October, but decided to take no chances with late-summer weather and left Alert in one of three U. S. planes which landed there recently

Geolooisfldls Of Findings in Arctic Area

OTTAWA, 10?)-Coral used to grow in warm water a. few hun- dred miies from the North Pole, says geologist Robert Blackadar

land the Arctic wastes have been'

;ivarmiii: up again in the last few lihousand years.

i These vt'ere some of the observa- tions made by the 25-year-old Ot- ltawa geologist in a four-month lexpedition this summer along the inorth coast of Elles1n.ere Island.

500 miles from the pole.

Blackadar accompanied glacia- logisi Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith on a trip whose chief aim was to lseek a possible source of the Arctic fOcean's huize ice islands along Hie Elksniere ice shelf.

He made soil and rock tau, preparatory to a geological map- ping of the island planned for the future, and told some of his find- ings at a press conference Wed- nesday.

He found rocks rangiiig Ill age from l,000.000,000 years to "quite young" rocks of somewhat over 1.- 000,000 years, and indications of the ceaseless change that goes on at the top of the world.

There were coral fossils, about 200,000,000 years old. Blackadar estimates. that showed the Arctic islands viere once washed by sub- tropical seas. Coral needs a water ,temperaiure no lower than 60 de- grass, The sea off Ellesmere now averages 28 degrees.

l Another proof of Arctic cliniige 'was a piece of lignite brought back by Blackadar. He said it

crossed north of Siberia but was pmbabb. m.ec,,d,,d me ice age I

forced la turn south through Ber-,m.1e mm.-9 than mg sirait into the Pacific withouti

feafmng Camdals Alma ”Cl3'.iiocd still showed the shape of its 4” 3”” ilbark and a knot where a. branch l-lattei'sicy-Smith said liiatcom- once m.m.-. l

1,000,000 1: ea rs

ago. The lignite. once it piece of

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CHAPTER VI Continued

"With what result?" asked Greg-

ory. "With the result that the pos- sible turns the scale," she assured him. "It is frankly possible that we might draw a blank. As far as I can see it is purely a matter of ex- penae. One doesn't want to go ex- ploring de luxe. or anything silly like that; but against the cost of the expedition, we may fairly set the pmbabie returns."

"And what do you estimate the eggs in the basket to be worth, Jane?" inquired Angus.

"I am counting them before they're hatched, no doubt." she ad- mitted. "but we have to consider Benny Boss again. He was a very able man, whatever he wasn't in other directions. and he wouldn't have fled and taken all this pro- digious trouble for anything small. The thing is in a nutshell, Tom; you have only got to inquire rough- ly for what we can charter a small steamer at the Galapagos, take it for say three months, and set off along the equator to hunt down the island. A few thousand pounds perhaps - absolutely nothing against the probable result."

They chattered. but found Jane meant all she had said. Indeed she was exceedingly firm.

"There is one other who will cer- tainly have to come," said Tom, "and that's Felice Pardo."

Jane Bradshaw reflected.

"It was a man called Felice Par-

do that Julia Boss married," she said. "D'you remember? How queer!"

"That need not detain us." de- clared Tom. "There are hundreds of Pardos at Lima alone and doz- ens of Felices - a very common name and Christian name in Peru. Felice would never forgive us if we took a jaunt like this without him. He's a keen photographer and will be able to immortalize the island.

"And he certainly ought to have a share." declared Angus.

They both regarded Jane, but she Offered no objections.

”Then that leaves

four." she

said. "A nice easy number."

THE GUARDIANC CHARLOTTETOWN

CHAPTER VII N0 RETREAT

Jane was not to be shaken from her purpose. and. somewhat. to his surprise, her sweetheart found that Angus Maine supported her strongly. Calmer reflection had decided Tom that such an enter- prise must be nonsense. but none the less he instituted inquiries, and decided that he would be guid- ed finally by another opinion. .

"Felice has got more horse sense than Angus and I put together," he told Jane, "and I have written a full account of the whole fan- tastic business to him. If he thinks it's good enough, and I find the probable expenses fairly reason- able. we'll go and meet him down South; but if he says we're mad, then it's off,"

"It isn't off, in the least." she promised. "Angus is game, and if you're going to show the white feather Tom. we'll go without you. I'm going, anyway, and I've told your mother so -- much to her surprise."

"Perhaps she'd like to crime?" he suggested.

"No - she's far too busy. You can simply see your remarkable mother's ideas expanding day by day-" ..

Tom had, indeed. endured some unsettling conversation with Mrs. .Aylmer. At first she protested lagalnst the proposed adventure, .but after Jane had come to lunch- icon and converted her, she sup- iported it.

l "I was never one to lwith the enterprises or amuse- iinents of young people." she told 'l1Bl' son. "I remember too well how ',the youthful mind soars, and can ,never forget all my own bitter ex- periences from the past, when I wanted to soar, but was not allow- led to do so. Your dear father al- lways seemed to know by a. curious linstinct the natural bent of my igirlieh spirit and invariably inter- vened at the critical moment. HI ihad a strange and complete in- isensibility over clothes, for exam- 'pie. He didn't seem to think that an elementary thing like clothes mattered as long as the human form was adequately covered."

I "He never cared what he put on .-the old dad."

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"I know. That was trying enough: but he never cared what I put on i,-quite another matter. It left I. lscar, dear Tom, because it meant

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