BYRD FLIES BACK TO CAMP AGAIN

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6868, 25 March 1929, Page 8

BYRD FLIES BACK TO CAMP AGAIN

150-Mile Breeze PA Pi T V OV KH JOYED AT LEADER’S RETURN (Copyright from Byrd.) BAY OP WHALES, March 23. Commander Byrd flew back from the mountains to-day after two days waiting for the wind to go down. The sky cleared this morning'with a cold sun shining and the thermometer at 22 below. The ’piano took oil and in less than three hours was back again. Everyone was overjoyed to see Commander Byrd step out of the cabin in which he and his companions Gould, June and Hanson, had been packed so tightly that they were almost spilling over on to pilot Dean Smith. It was a happy end to an episode which might have had disastrous consequences, but was overcome by the efficient working of the entire organisation. Byrd, Gould and Hanson were surrounded by everyone in camp anxious to know all about the ice where the wind blows at a hundred and fifty miles an hour. All were well despite the severe cold of the nights spent in sleeping bags for the temperature was below zero.