BYRD'S EMOTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 9, 11 January 1934, Page 7

BYRD'S EMOTION.

LITTLE AMERICA SAFE. Message from Ellsworth Hailed With Joy. JACOB RUPPERT IN DARK FOG. .United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 10. A wireless message received from Rear-Admiral Byrd's Antarctic Expedition on the Jacob Ruppert is as follows: — The Jacob Ruppert this afternoon is ■ crawling through the "Devil's Graveyard," where nearly two weeks ago she narrowly escaped disaster. Through dark thick fog the faintly luminous outlines of enormous icebergs appeared and disappeared as the ship crept past. The Jacob Ruppert was forced to change her course frequently to avoid "growler icebergs." Members of the crew, unmindful of the dangers involved, had their minds focused on a wireless message which Rear-Admiral Bvrd re- ' eeived from Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth's expedition announcing the arrival of the latter nt Little America, the Byrd party's base in the Bay of Whales. Mr. Ellsworth reported: "Little America is as you left it. The 'planes are in good conditio!]. Except for the need to dig out radio masts all is 0.K." Rear-Admiral Byrd, who was in the radio shack when the message was received, could not conceal his emotion, saying: "That answers the question I have wanted to know for years —the question that thousands of people have asked me—will Little America be found, or will the snows have buried -it as they buried Amundsen's Camp Frambeim, in the same place? Well, here's the answer." The noon position of the Jacob Ruppert was latitude 17.1.3, longitude 135.3 G.