HELP OF WHALERS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 103, 25 January 1930, Page 11

HELP OF WHALERS

COMMANDER BYRD’S APPEAL STEAMERS ON EDGE OF ICE-PACK UNPRECEDENTED CONDITIONS (United Dies? Association.—By Blectrts Telegraph.—Copyright.) (By Russell Owen. —Special to “New York Times.”) Bay of Whales, January 22. Commander Byrd has asked the State Department to request the Norwegian Government to have their powerful whalers help the City of New York and the Eleanor Bolling through the icepack. The New York has reached the edge of the ice-pack, and finds unprecedented conditions. The Eleanor Bolling will join her on January 26. To avoid spending another year In the Antarctic the Little America expedition must leave.by February 20. Five whalers are in the Ross Sea, and could force their way through. Byrd returned yesterday from * flight to Discovery Inlet, flying west of here a hundred miles, then south a hundred and forty through the centre of the Great Barrier in search for signs of land which would protect that long arm of sea and explain its formation. The only possible indention of land was in the region of pressure about a hundred miles south of the inlet area. Fifteen thousand square miles of new territory were observed during the flight. While in the air Byrd was in touch ■with the steamer New York through the station here, discussing matters connected with the problem of getting out this year, which because of the late season and the heavy pack, is assuming a serious aspect. One message was a telephone communication which the New York received from London, and which was sent to Little America from the office of the “New York Times,” and relayed to the 'plane while over the Barrier more than a hundred miles from Little America.