Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28
English Expedition to Tour
Unvisited Regions Of Antarctic
In Captain SCOTS Boat discovery" Stackhouse Will Follow
Route Mapped Out by ShackIeton Party-Maxm Gorky Is
Dying of consumption-other Foreign News.

| LONDON, Feb. 28.-The steamer
Discovery, which the late Captain
Scott used in his first Antarctic
voyage, has been chartered by the
British Antarctic expedition. which is
to be commanded by J. Foster Stack
house, and will leave London about
the first of August for the far south.
Mr.. Stackhouse, whose exploratory
! work has heretofore been confined to
Iceland, will make no attempt to
reach the pole. His main purpose will
be to determine the coast line of
King Edward VII Land, on one side
of the Antarctic circle. and Graham
Land, on the other. Between these
two sections of discovered land
stretches a vast ard practically I'M
explored, region. The expedition will
attempt to reach the pole, determine
whether this intervening space is land
or sea, whether King Edward VII.
Land Is part of the great Antarctic
continent or merely an island or group
of islands set in the frozen sea.
The existence of Graham Land, and
of Coats Land, Enderby Land and
Kemp Land on the Atlantic border of
the great ice barrier as we'll as the
discovery of land south by Lieutenant
Filchner, of the German expedition
in 1911, support the continental theory.
On the other hand the great area of
pack ice massed on the north and
west coasts of King Edward VII.
Land points. Mr.. Stackhouse suggests,
to the drift of ice northward from the
Weddell sea to the Ross sea, presum-
ably through a strait separating King
Edward VII. Land from Graham
Land. This is the most southerly Of
British possessions for the whole
region between meridian 20 degrees
west and meridian 80 degree west is
claimed for the British crown. The
information which the expedition will
obtain as to harbors, whaling stations
and sealing grounds will be of great
service to the whaling industry of
the Falkland islands.
The crew of the Discovery will con-
sist of twenty-five men, and in addi-
ton there will be five scientists, sew
eral of the ships officers also under
taking scientific observations. They
will have an aeroplane for photogra-
phic survey work and this, too, will
be useful in enabling the leader to
choose the best route when he wants
to advance. Most of the navigating
and scientific staff have already been
chosen. Lieutenant A. E. Hartford,
of the royal navy, who was navigat-
ing officer on the Nimrod in the
Shackleton expedition, will command
the Discovery. The first officer will
be Lieutenant Richard H. Garstin, of
the royal Indian marine, who has a
considerable knowledge of surveying,
and the navigating officer, who comes
from the same service, will be Lieu
tenant R. Beatty, cousin of Rear
Admiral David Beatty. Chief Petty
Officer Tom Green, who sailed with
Scott in both his Discovery and Terra
Nova expeditions, will be boatswain.
Among the scientific staff will be
Lord Congleton, of the Grenadier
guards, who has done great deal of
military survey work; the Master of
sempill, only son of Lord Sempill,
has served his apprenticeship in en-
cheering, and will have charge of the
meteorological department, the cleo
trical plant and the motorboat and
aeroplane engines; Captain A. S.
Cantrell, who has been lent by the
admiralty, will have charge of the
survey work; w. H. Stewart Garnett,
M. A., an expert on skis and quail
fled marine engineer, and d. Hector
Pearson, an officer in the Essex ter
ritorials, will be one of the surveyors.
The expedition will be away for
three or four years.
ROME, Feb. 24.-Maxim Gorky is