BYRD EXPEDITION
HOMEWARD JOURNEY TEMPESTUOUS WEATHER EXPERIENCED NUMEROUS SQUALLS (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Montreal, February 14. A wireless message says that, struck by numerous squalls since she left Little America, the Jacob Ruppert emerged from the tempestuous sixties to-day. At noon her position was 59.43 degrees south and 173.45 east, about 890 miles from Dunedin. The Bear of Oakland is about 109 miles astern. According to a radio communication early to-day the wind reached a velocity of 60 miles an hour, and once it was necessary to change the course to provide a lee for the two aeroplanes which were cocked on the after hatch.
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Southland Times, Issue 22508, 16 February 1935, Page 6
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