Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — FRENCH INVASION OF THE ANTARCTIC CIRCLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRENCH INVASION OF THE ANTARCTIC CIRCLE

Under the auspices of the French government and the French Academy of Sciences, Dr. Jean Charcot, the son of the physician, is equipping an expedition to the south pole. The three-masted schooner Le Francals will carry the party Into the Ant-

arctic regions. Le Francals is of 800 tons, 96 feet long, 27 feet beam, 240horse power, especially built for this expedition. The explorers will sail from Brest, Finlstere, France, for Alexandria Land. Thus the south polar regions will he entered simultaneously by the English from Victoria Land, by the Germans from Enderby and Kemp Lands, by the Scotchmen from Weddell Sea, by the Swedes from Gerlache Strait, and from Alexandria Land by the French.

SCHOONER LE FRANCOIS.