SHACKLETON IN TIME

Evening Star, Issue 16211, 5 September 1916, Page 6

SHACKLETON IN TIME

WILD’S PARTY RESCUED FROM ELEPHANT ISLAND. ALL TWENTY-TWO V/ELL. MAROONED FIVE MONTHS. 9 Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. LONDON, September 4. The ‘ Daily Chronicie ’ states that Sir Ei. 'Shacklcton has saved all the Elephant Island party. All a.re well. [On November 20, 1915, Shackleton’s vessel, the Endurance, disappeared through, the ice floe which liad previously crushed her. The whole party drifted for threo months on a small floe, from which eventually they embarked in boats, and, with the exception of one boat load, landed on Elephant Island on April 16, 1916. Sir E. Shackleton, with five companions— Worsley, Orean, MacNish, Macarthy, and Vmoent—-left Elephant Island on April 24 in their largest boat, and reached South Georgia on May 10. They crossed the island on foot, and reached Btromness, a Norwegian whaling station, on May 20. The Norwegians equipped an 80-ton whaler, which eet out for Elephant Island May 25, but had to turn back because of heavy ice and shortage of coal. Sir E. Shacklcton then went "to the Falkland Islands for assistance, and subsequently to South America. Repeated attempts to reach Elephant Island were made in vessels lent first by the Government of Uruguay, and then by the Government of Chile. The latter Government next lent the yacht Yelcho, which left Punta Arenas, in Patagonia, on August 27. Meantime, the Hudson Bay whaler Disfoveryhsd been fitted out in England, and left Plymouth for Elephant Island on August 10. It is not known which of vesse^3 effected the rescue. \\ ild s party, who numbered 22 men, have been on Elephant Island, as stated, since April 16 of this year, their quarters bein'*described by Sir E. Shackleton as “a nole m m ice cliff,” and he stated that wmn no left them on April 24 they “ had five weeks’ provisions on full rations, cxclisi-.a of the possibilities of obtaining seals. Mr jirank Wild, second in command of the whole expedition, is a Yorkshirem m, a *-e<l 42 and accompanied Captain Scott to the Antarctic in the Discovery in 1801-04, -Sir E. Shacklcton in the Nimrod in 1907-09 and Sir Douglas Mawson in 1911-15. ILd brother, Mr H. E. Wild, was with Gaptain Mackintosh and with the party wnom tho Aurora had to leave at Rocs £ea*] AMPLE CONFIRMATION. MESSAGE TO THE KING. TRIBUTE TO WILD. LONDON, September 4. (Received September 5, at 1.40 p.m.) Sir Ernest Shackleton telegraphs:— “We reached Wild’s camp on August 30. I am also telegraphing Wild’s full report.” - Sir E. Shackleton informed King George of the rescue in the following message:—. “ Under Divine providence we have rescued our comrades. W T e thank your Majesty for your gracious message "and kindly interest.” He added: “The party’s safety is primarily due to Wild’s leadership, tact, and force of character.”