BYRD EXPEDITION.
SEVERE CONDITIONS IN ANTARCTICA. (By Russell Owen, copyright 1928 by the New York Times Company and the St'. Louis Post Dispatch; all rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to the New York Times.) Received July 29, 9.5 a.m. BAY OF WHALES, July 27. This has b;en the worst-day we have had so far as temperatures and wind are concerned. Severe cold on a calm day can be withstood for a long time, but when the wind blows and the thermometer stays down, which is unusual, one cannot stay out of doors for any length of time without danger of getting badly frost-bitten. The thermometer registers 67 degrees below zero to-day, and the wind has been above twenty miles an hour for most of the day—strong enough to whip up the drift snow. The wind is also from the south-west, which is a cold quarter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 204, 29 July 1929, Page 7
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