New Britain herald., 1918-04-11
AMUNDSEN SPEAKS
At HARTFORD RALLY
Norwegian Explorer in Capital
City Next Saturday Evening

Hartford, April 11-Captain R0ald
Amundsen, discoverer of the South
Pole, will speak at a War Rally Sat
urday night at o'clock in the Broad
Street Auditorium Of the Hartford
Public High School. He comes to
Connecticut to deliver stirring pa
triotic message in the interests of the
war and Allied victory. Admission
will be free.
AS NorWay'S distinguished citizen
is expected that Hartford and New
Britain people of Scandinavian birth
or extraction will be proud Of the OPP
portunity to pay their fellow country
man tribute by helping to swell the
audience.
President Flavel s. Luther, Of Trim
ity college. Hartford, will preside and
Mayor Frank \. Hagarty, of Hart
ford. VIII make the address Of wei
come. one OF the Hartford Liberty
Choruses will sing. The event is be
ing arranged by the Division of War
Rallies Of the Connecticut State
Council of Defense cooperating with
the Hartford War Bureau.
The rally is not planned for
ScandinaVians alone but for the gem
eral public. Every encOura cement is
being given however to the plan of
prom citing the attendance Of a large
number of Scandinayians in Hartford.
New Britain and surrounding towns.
Churches ad organizations Of the
Scandinavian race have Eeen invited
to send delegations.
Captain Amundsen landed in Amer
lea q few weeks ago after six
weeks tour of inspection of the Brit
ish, French and American battle
fronts in France He is enthusiastic
over the cooperation and co-ordina-
ton of the Allied armies and sees
complete victory ahead The Amer
lean soldiers he saw in France won
his instant praise. Because of his
fame and the power of his war mes
sage the national government has
sent the explorer on a speaking tour
o. the country. In sections where
there is q large Scandinavian popu-
latiOn he has made especial appeals
for his cOuntryme en- to support the war
to their utmost.
The WantOn destruction Of shipping
by German U-boats has sorely tried
the patience of neutral countries like
Amundsen's native land, Norway.
Last October his estimate of the
Huns methods of dealing with un-
armed vessels and their crews was
flashed across the news wires Of the
world. The sinking of a Norwegian
bark by German submarine fol-
lowed by the horrible murder of the
defenSeless sailors by shell fire they
were making away in life boats was
an act that filed Amundsen with
righteous wrath. He went to the
German legation at Christiania and
returned to the Kaiser's minister as
y protest, the decorations awarded to
him by Berlin for achievements in
polar exploration.
AnundSen achieved international
| fame by his discovery of the South
Pole on December 16, 1911 two years
after Admiral Peary had reached the
North Pole. After Drawing the perils
of the Antarctic he was acclaimed as
NOrWay'S most distinguished subject.
His ambitions haVd been directed
since towards a live-year drift across
| the North Pole in Nansen's ship the
Fran The war has temporarily
side-tracked that venture although
large appropriations have been made
| for the trip by the Norwegian gov
! eminent whose confidence in Amund-
sen is unShakeable.