POISON DANGER.
BYRD IN HIS LONELY HUT. NEW YORK, June 24. The following wireless f message was received from the Byrd Expedition at Little America,. Antarctica: — In a radio conversation from his advance weather base Rear-Admiral • Byrd told of his narrow escape from carbon monoxide poisoning last Sunday. It was during a conversation with members of the expedition here that he began to feel dizzy and said: "Let us make this short. I will tell you why later." Yesterday the leader explained that the motor which supplies the electric power for the radio wa3 throwing off fumes and he felt "rocky." He was forced to turn off the motor. The danger of carbon monoxide poisoning is a continual menace on Rear-Admiral Byrd, and the expedition scientists have warned him to exert the utmost care.
Yesterday marked mid-winter in the long Antarctic night with the sun at its greatest declination. To-day there will be a slow movement toward the south.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 7
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