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...again for San Francisco where her owner, Explorer Roald Amundsen of Norway, had instructed that she should be sold (TIME, Aug. 24). From Nome were relayed some of the adventures that had befallen the Maude during the months when she lay locked in ice-floes off East Cape, Siberia, first trying to drift up over the Pole, then trying to get home...
Maude. Explorer Roald Amundsen's schooner Maude, icebound all last winter in the region of the New Siberian Islands, southwest of Bering Strait, in a fruitless attempt to drift over the North Pole, was reported last week at East Cape, Siberia, free of the ice and bound for Nome, Alaska. Though equipped with radio, the Maude has not been heard from directly for months. Presumably she was been withholding gasoline from her power generators, for use in crashing the floes. Hearing of her return, Explorer Amundsen, in Copenhagen, conferring with German dirigible experts upon a proposed pole-flight...
...ADVENTURE OF WRANGEL ISLAND - Vilhjalmur Stefansson - Macmillan ($6.00). Wrangel was an explorer; and an Arctic island off Siberia, according to Mr. Stefansson, was named after him by U. S. Whaling Captain Thomas Long.* This book, highly entertaining, contains accounts of several visits made to the Island and ends with uncertainty as to which country owns it -Russia, Britain or the U. S. Mr. Stefansson, who in 1914 took Wrangel Island for the British and later offered it to the U. S., seems, according to Russian advice, to have been beaten by the Bolsheviki. More certainly, nobody- except the aerophile scientists...
...Japan won economic advantages on paper by the Russo-Japanese Treaty which Russia never would have granted if she had not been checkmated in England by the Conservatives. Russia promises Japan oil concessions in Saghalin and others in Siberia, but the Soviet's history shows that they generally fail to keep their word. Japan's benefits, therefore, are doubtful...
...short time, he was Foreign Commissar; but, early in 1918, he be came Commissar of War or Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army, a posi tion which he held until last February. The dominating trait of his character is energy. One week he was in Siberia, another at Moscow, another at Sevastapol. Always was he on the move. His discipline made that of the Tsars a sort of mother's love and it was said that every officer and soldier went in terror of his life. So much for his efficiency...