IN THE ICE PACK

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 50, 2 June 1916, Page 6

IN THE ICE PACK

SHACKLETON'S NARRATIVE THRILLING EXPERIENCES. NEWLY-DISCOVERED COUNTRY. jLUkITTID Pb»S! AMQOI4TION.] '.' ..(Eeceivtd 12.50 p.hii) ,_,,,.,,; , London, June 1. " Shackleton. in a long thrilling story. says:.— ~-. .■ "We left South Georgia on December 6,'and sighted Coats Land on January 10th" V .

"Next we discovered new land with two hundred miles of coast line, with great glaciers discharging into the sea, which we named Cairo. "Here we observed, a great migration ofthousands of seals northwards. "We experienced heavy gafes, and eventually found ourselves closed in the ice. "There were signs of the ice opening in the middle of February, so w.e decided to" v attempt to break' out. "There were fqrty'nine degrees of frosfc by; the end of February. The old and yoking, ice packs cemented together. and it was impossible either to land or extricate ship.". ~'..— / GRIPPED BY THE ICE. THE END: OF THE ENDURANCE. SLEDGE JOURNEY ABANDONED.

DRIFT TO THE OPEN SEA.

' (Eeceived 1.20 p.m.)

.Shackleton, continues :—"We drifted across Weddel Sea embedded in the ice pack. Twenty dogs died. "The peril increased during June and July, when the ice pressure increased. There was a great crash on August 1, ,when the pressure drove the Endurance bodily hit of the ice and hurled, her before the gale. She stood the strain, but the rudder was damaged on October 16th. The pressure threw the Endurance out on her beam ends upon the ice, and all hands camped in the ice three hundred miles from land. "We left the Endurance and began to sledg? northwards at the rate of a mile daily, but abandoned the journey and returned to the camp near the ship. "We drifted on the floe-for two months. "The Endurance sank on November j 20. ' "We remained on the ice for threw months, drifting northward, and sight-, ed the South Shetlands on April 7. We launched three boats and reached the open sea on the 10th and rowed westward." ) LANDING ON ELEPHANT ISLAND. (Received 1.20 p.m.) , London, June 1. The party crossed the Antarctic Circle in January, and when in a dire condition sighted the South Shetlands on April 7. They launched the boats and landed on Elephant Island. One boat disappeared in a furious gale off the island. Wild was left in charge, Shackleton voyaging to South Georgia. There were constant snow storms and gales for a fortnight.