ATTACKED BY BEARS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 October 1925, Page 9

ATTACKED BY BEARS.

—* POLAR SHIP’S ADVENTURE. FINE MOVING PICTURE FILM. OTTAWA, Sep. 8. Canada’s annual Polar excursion by Captain Bernier, aboard the steaamer Arctic, was an utter failure this year owing to the same terrible weather which defeated the MacMillan expedition to Greenland, except in one particular. Tills one feature of outstanding success was the obtaining of the greatest moving pictures ever seen of a pack of infuriated Polar bears, who boldly attacked the ship in numbers. Nothing like these adventures has ever previously been recorded, according to the story of the expedition, which has just, been sent by wireless from Greenland to Copenhagen and then cabled to Ottawa. Twenty bears approached the ship. The first volley, fired at 50 yards range, only infuriated them, and they charged to a point under where the moving picture machine was snapping them from the deck The ship had many other thrilling experiences, and once narrowly escaped being crushed between an iceberg and a floe, when the engines failed for an hour.

The Arctic is a wooden, four-masted vessel of 069 tons, fitted with oil engines, built at Eureka, California, in 1898.