Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-06-02 | Page 11 | British Expect to Reach South Pole

I BRITISH EXPECT TO REACH SOUTH POLE Well Equipped Expedition Sails Under Command of Scott and Evans. LONDON, Juno 1. The British Antarctic Ant-arctic expedition set sail today. Captain Scott has announced December 1, 1911, as tho date for his arrival at tho south polo. After receiving vlslls and good wishes from hundreds of persons, Including Captain Cap-tain Bnrt.lett of the Arctic stoamor Roosevelt, the Terra Nova sailed for Cardiff; Car-diff; thence, after coaling, aho will proceed pro-ceed . to New Zealand, where Captain Scott will como aboard. Tho 10,000-mllc voyage Into the Antarctic will then be continued. Captain Scott, and JJeut. E. R. Evans, second in command, claim they have tho bcst-eciulppcd expedition that has started start-ed on a polar search. Tho ofllcers and scientists, 'to tho number of twenty-eight, twenty-eight, and the crew of twenty-soven, are all picked men', selected from tho many hundreds who have volunteered.