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Show ' Dirigible Has Been Purchased Pur-chased for a Journey of Discovery Paris, Jan. 3. Messrs. Mattiessen and Voltsehook, officers of tho Russian Rus-sian army, today purchased two dirigible dirig-ible balloons with capacities of 1,400 and 2.000 cubic metres, with which I they will undertake an expedition to the south pole. The explorers plan to convey the apparatus by ship as far south as thei 1cg will permiivand then i proceed In the balloons southward. I They will keep in touch with their ships, their base of Buppliee, by mcaas J j of a wireless outfit j |