MESSAGE FROM SHACKLETON.
THE ENDURANCE CRUSHED IN THE ICE.
CREW LAND ON ELEPHANT ISLAND.
800-MILE VOYAGE IN SMALL BOAT.
LONDON, June 1. Tho " Daily. Chronicle " publishes tho following message, signed by Sir Ernest ShackkSm, dated Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, May 31: —
"I havo arrived here. The Endurance was crushed it> the ice m the midclb of-tho Weddel Sea on October 27, 1915. We drifted 700 miles in-the ice until April 9, lUlb. We landed on Elephant Island on \pnl 16. 1 left on the 24th, leaving 22 men in a, hole in the ioe cliffs, and prwvodcd for help to South Georgia, with five men in n 22ft boat., At the tune of leaving Elephant Island all tho others were well, but were m urgent need of rescue."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8465, 2 June 1916, Page 5
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