TO THE ANTARCTIC.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10762, 9 May 1911, Page 4

TO THE ANTARCTIC.

SIR E. SHACKLKTON'S APPEAL

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received May 8, at 11.5 p.m. Berlin, May 8. The Deutschland, with Lieutenant Filelmer and other members of the expedition, has sailed from Bremerhaven. Received May 9, at 0.-1U a.m. London, May 8. Sir E. Shacklrion, in a letter to the Daily Mail, makes a warm appeal for £12,000 to enable Dr Mawson to purchase a ship and start in June. He declares that Australia lias done much financially towards Antarctic exploration. The Mail, in endorsing the appeal, says one good turn deserves another.