ANTARCTICA DR. MAWSON'S EXPEDITION
NO FURTHER NEWS. By Tolegrapb.— Press Assodatton.-Copyright. (Received February 27, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. No farther news has been received regarding tjie Mawson expedition. HARD TO GUESS WHAT #AS HAPPENED. INFORMATION TOO MEAGRE. MELBOURNE, 26th February. Professor Masson considers the informa* tion from Dr. Mawson so meagre that one could only guess as to what had happened. -Dr. Mawson'e words "unavoidably detained " may mean that Dr. Mawaoh finds work to do that must be done, or that he and hia companions 'were not on the spot when the Aurora called to pick them up, and that the vessel had to push on to get to Mr. Wild's party. If Dr. Mawson's party was missed in this way, possibly the Aurora may return for them. Dr. Mertu was a Swiss expert on skis, and Dr. Mawson depended on him >to teach the others to ski. LIEUTENANT NINNIS'S FATHER. UNIVERSAL REGRET. LONDON, S6th February. • Lieutenant Ninnis'a father was tho naturalist of the South Australian surveying expedition of 1864 to the Northern Territory. He was also a member of Sir George Nares's Arctic expedition of 1875. The Times, says that there i& universal regret for Wio deaths of Lieutenant Nmais and Dr. Merta, whose work was interlocked with the very raison d'etre of the expedition.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 7
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