Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25
BYRD WILL CLAIM
LAND IN ANTARCTIC
Sees No Basis for Dispute in
Regulating Statement He
Would Yield Area.
special pispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 25.-Rear ADJ
miral Richard e. Byrd, in a radiogram
to his personal representative in New
York, H. H. Railey, made public yester-
day, announced that he would claim for
the United States lands he discovered
in Antarctica. He points out that the
lands lie outside the Ross Dependency
and that there should be no ground for
controversy.
He sent the message to clear I'D any
m1sapprehension as to what he had said
in an interview in Dunedin, New Zea-
land. In an Associated Press dispatch
from Dunedin on March IL Admiral
Byrd was reported as having announced
In an interview there that he had no
intention of claiming for the United
States any lands he had discovered. On
March is Joseph P. Cotton, Acting Sec
rotary OF State, declared in WASHINGTON
That such>an announcement by Admiral
Byrd, II correctly reported, would not
be binding upon the United States.
Misguided, Says Admiral.
Rear Admiral Byrd's radiogram cor
recttng the report follows:
S. S. ELEANOR BOILING.
Railey: -'O'
There is dispatch from washington
published here this am as follows:
WASHINGTON, March 15.-Acting
Secretary Cotton of the State DEPART
ment today expressed the view that the
ntentlon OF Admiral Byrd not to claim
the Antarctic lands which he discovered
was not considered binding upon the
..merican Government
again have been somehow mis-
quoted. My speech was as follows:
Il have noted" said the speaker. that
there has been a tendency in some
quarters Of America and Europe to
create controversy between the British
Empire and the United States concern
ing our claims in Antarctica. There is
no reason or ground for that. We have
considered this expedition a scientific
venture and we hope a sporting one and
we went down there with the utmost
respect for the British who preceded us
Our work should bring us closer together
ana not further apart, and it would be
pity should any controversy arise. It
would go entirely against the feelings
and the hopes we have held from the
first.
No Ground for Controversy.
I'VE have from the beginning recog-
nized the Ross Dependency. Antarctica
Is big enough for all of us. Our claim
lies entirely outside of the Ross Depend
ency over to the eastward and there is
nothing In the situation that could
cause controversy. We are more In
tereSted in good fellowship with you In
our common investigations down there
than we are with any claims in Ant
arctica. It is another one of those cases
where the intangible things of the spirit
are far more important than material
aspects"
The above was sent to the United
States. Therefore, don't understand
how it has gotten around that said
was not going to claim lands we dis
covered.
Acknowledging his election with Col
Charles A. Lindbergh, Maj. Gen. Robert
Lee Billiard and August Heckscher to
honorary membership in the New York
Athletic Club on March IL, Admiral
Byrd sent to Mai. William Kennedy,
president Of the club, the following
radiogram:
March 10, 1880.
Major Kennedy,
New York Athletic Club,
Via r New York:
Sorry to have delayed my acknowl-
edgment of your cable informing me of
my election to honorary membership in
the New York Athletic Club. / accept
with pleasure and thank you very much.
r. e. BYRD.