SEARCH FOR ELLSWORTH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 10, 13 January 1936, Page 7

SEARCH FOR ELLSWORTH

PROGRESS OF THE DISCOVERY SYDNEY, Jan. 9. Mr. R. A. Parkhill, Minister of Defence, ha<?. received a message from the Discovery 11. stating that the weather continues fine. The vessel has now crosesd the Antarctic circle and open water is ahead. The aircraft and the Moth engine are being overhauled, the sledge tried out and emergency rations prepared for the Wapiti ’plane. VIEWS OF SWEDISH CONSUL FAST EXPERIENCES “ABSENCE OF RADIO DOES NOT MEAN TRAGEDY” [ Per Press Association. ] INVERCARGILL, Jan, 9. Mr. M. E. Wiig, Norwegian Consul at Bluff, states that the absence of radio signals from Mr, Lincoln Ellsworthy does not necessarily mean tragedy. Mr. Wiig’s theory is that the fliers will be found -safe in Little America in such a position- that the successful transmission of radio messages would be impossible. Mr. Wiig bases his calculation on the experience of the old Sir James Clark Ross in those waters during the 1927-28 whaling season, The position was that the ship was up in ice. All about her were immense icebergs, and these, higher than the vessel’s maste, had completely “blanketed” her wireless. Mr. Wiig is surveyor of shipping in the South Island for Norway. \\ ith the assistance of an expert, the Consul inspected the radio equipment on the Wyatt Earp at Mr. LlLworth’s invitation. Mr. Wiig had a look at the small radio set the explorer was taking with him for use on his flight from the base. “Remembering the wireless experience of Sir James Clark Ross Ellsworth’s silence is readily understandable,” Mr. Wiig said. “My own idea is that he and his companion are safe in an igloo of t-heir own construction, and will be found eventually by one of the searching parties. Let ue- hope relief will not be too jong delayed. 0 located £83,000 for secret service in 1936. Italian Denials of Losses From Rome conies a message stating that in rebuttal of stories of heavy Italian losses it is officially announced that between October 3 and December 31, Eritreans and Somali natives were killed. The unofficial story from Addis Ababa that the Abyssinians have reached the outskirts of Makale has been promptly denied in Rome, where it is suggested that the enenihy is is fifteen to twenty milqs distant.