BYRD RESCUED

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1934, Page 7

BYRD RESCUED

THIRD TRY SUCCESSFUL BAD WEATHER ENCOUNTERED (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] NEW YORK, August 11. A message from Little America states: Mr Boulter started at three) o’clock this morning, with a tractor crew, on a third attempt to reach Admiral Byrd. At noon they reported they were 25 miles southward, on the trail, but the visibility was poor. Boulter and one aide were skiing ahead of the tractor, and planting flags at intervals of 100 yards for the guidance of the driver. The weather is now menacing. The temperature is rising rapidly. It touched 59 degrees below zero, and in a few hours was .only 39 below. High gales are anticipated. RESCUE REPORTED. (Recd. August 13, 1.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, August 12. The National Geographic Society on Sunday night announced receipt of a. message saying that Rear-Admiral Byrd had been rescued.

SIR H. WILKINS.

TIMARU, August 12.

Sir Hubert Wilkins arrived, yester

day, by the Bort Nicholson, and left soon afterwards for Christchurch, en route to the north, to join the Lincoln Ellswoith expedition. He established a record for fast travelling. He was in New Zealand in May, and since then he has been in the United States and Great Britain, returning by the East. He spent three weeks

n New York, then crossed the At'

lantic to England, where he was engaged in perfecting his plans for his submarine expedition to the Arctic regions. From London, he flew by an Imperial Airways liner to Singapore, then to Sourabaya by a Dutch liner, and travelled 150 miles by motorboat to Banjuwang, where he connected with a boat for Broome. From Broome, he travelled by air to Adelaide, then by train to Melbourne, and sailed for New Zealand on the Bort Nicholson. Sir Hubert said that, his plans were for the extension of meteorological research in the Antarctic, the scheme

to include the establishment and maintenance of twelve permanent stations along the Antarctic Circle. His plans were not yet in a sufficiently advanced position for submission to the various scientific institutions for their consideration, but on his return from the forthcoming expedition, to the Antarctic and when his projected submarine trip to the Arctic, had been, completed, he would have his scheme brought to the notice of scientific organisations in Australia, South America and the United States. CHRISTCHURCH, August 13. Interviewed in Cliristchurcll, Sir Hubert Wilkins said: Ellsworth is expected to reach New Zealand from America on September 7, and the expedition will leave about the middle of September. The Wyatt Earp will go to Deception Island, whence Ihe Polar Star will fly along the coast of Weddell Sea to Ross Sea, remaining there until the Wyatt Earp arrives to pick it up for the return journey to New Zealand. Much of this route has not been explored before, and the journey will enable more new. territory to be covered than would have been the case with the plans drawn up last year. Detailed plans for the expedition will be determined when Ellsworth arrives in New Zealand. Sir Hubert said that his own plans for the future, after the Ellsworth expedition had returned, would depend upon the result of the present venture. The speaker had planned to build a new submarine for Arctic exploration, and to serve as a permanent base in the Arctic for observa-

tion in connection with the general study of the north and south PoPir regions.