DAYS OF UNREST.

Auckland Star, Issue 38, 14 February 1929, Page 7

DAYS OF UNREST.

EXECRABLE WEATHER. Byrd's Ship Has To Put Out To Open Sea. TEAR OF PACK-ICE. (.United Service.) (Received f'.-'lO a.m.) NEW YORK, February 1 [By Mr. Russell Owen. Copyrighted ]02S by the •• New York Times " O'liU'any. ami the "St. Louis I'ost Dispatch." All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless lo the " New York Times."] HAY OF WHALES, February 12. The weather lias continued to bo execrable and we are still beating up and down in a stiff nor'-easter waitingl for the storm to pass. The barometer is going up but that does not mean much sometimes down here. This is the seventh day of unrest and it does not appear that we will get back into the bay ice for some time. The ship is practically unloaded and one more day will finish the work. Our position is complicated l»y the fact that this long and unusual spell of wind from the east and north brought down a lot of heavy pack-ice from the unknown region above us, and so as not to be caught between it and the bay ice and squeezed, Ave have liad to thread our way through large Hoes and get entirely outside the bay into the open sea. The conditions must be very unusual for Amundsen's Frain only put to sc.! twice during her stay here, whereas we have almost lost, track of the number <>f times we have left the bay iee to avoid being crushed against it by the sea.