SHACKLETON EXPECTED
IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. LONDON, March 19. News of the Shaejjleton Antarctic Expedition is expected within the next few days. A little uneasiness has been felt by some people on account of the absence all the time the Aurora has been in the Antarctic —and that ia nearly 15 months—of any wireless message from her (says the "Sydney Daily Telegraph"). Captain J. K. Davis, who was in command of the Aurora on the Mawson expedition, stated recently, however that the inference that something' untoward had happened was not at aU justified. He pointed out that the Mawson expedition had for the first year found it impossible to get its wireless going, owing to the difficulties in erecting masts and insulating them. In any case, the installation with which the Ross Sea party of the expedition was I equipped was not a high-power one, and provided it were now working, the fact that the station on Macquarie Island which would have been the intermediary in the communications, had lately be™ dtaaatled would account for l£
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 68, 20 March 1916, Page 6
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