RECKLESS COURAGE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 27, 31 January 1929, Page 5

RECKLESS COURAGE

SUN BY BIBB'S EH

DESPERATE SITUATION DOCK PIER BREAKS UP HUGE ICE CAKES HEAVING AGAINST SHIP. NO LIVES LOST THOUGH GREAT RISKS TAKEN.

(Received 10.15 a.m.) Copyright from Byrd Expcdit ion. by Russell Owen. BAY OF WHALES, Jan. 29.

The Antarctic played another 6% its little tricks to-day, and] for two hours on breaking and heaving cakes of the. man showed a reckless courage which alono saved a desperate situation.

Our dock pier, the 011 Q to which we were tied so neatly yesterday, broko up under a heavy swell, and with portions of the. Barrier crumbling off ahead, and huge cakes buckling and heaving up against the ships

and between us awl tho Barrier cakes, on which the prociou 8 aeroplanes parts were, resting, forty men worked like trojans and, risked their lives to get everything aboard, again. SUCCEEDED BY A MIRACLE.. They succeeded, and by a miracle no man ot important' article was lost. The thing occurred with startling suddenness where all had been quiet, but swift and efljoient work a moment before, on what was apparently a Bolkl pile- of snpw twenty feet, thick", everything began' to disintegrate under the men's feet. It broke up all at onco; in a swift settling and heaving mass as if an earthquake was taking place, and slowly but with ominous power these huge blocks upended. SHIP THREATENED. For the time they threatened to overturn and possibly crush the Eleanor Boiling which was lying next to them. It seemed that they might easily have punched a hole in ™° ship,, and snnk her. As it is we are now safe, and the ships are moving out until the) broken dock drifts out and we can go back alongside, the low part of the barrier and resume our un-loading.-Opyright by New York Times and"St, Louis Post Despatch.