Transport: Jumble

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Fortnight ago, when this garbled radio message from Flyer Lincoln Ellsworth, far out over Antarctica, was followed only by complete jumble and then silence, Sir Hubert Wilkins and the rest of the expedition on the base ship Wyatt Earp at Dundee Island at first refused to be upset. In a wireless dispatch...

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