SHACKLETON'S MEN SAFE:

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2868, 5 September 1916, Page 5

SHACKLETON'S MEN SAFE:

ELEPHANT ISLANDERS "ALL . WELL." EXPLORERS' THIRD TRY SUCCEEDS (Press 'Association.—Extraordinary.) ifcnatralian-New Zealand Cable Association.. (Reo. September 4, 7.40 p.m.) London, September 4. -Tho "Daily Chronicle" states that "Sir Ernest Stiackloton has saved all tho Elephant Islanders. They, are "all woll." [Shackleton has made three heroic attempts to rescue his comrades from Elephant Island. As has already been told, tho Antarctic expedition met with disaster —Shackleton failed to reach his objective, but ho' accomplished that whioh no one could have believed it possible for a human being to achieve. His ship, tho Endeavour, was crushed in tho ice, and sank. His party drifted* for three whole months in the midst of a melee of crushing and grinding bergs, encamped on a small floe, which dwindled down to a space of 100 yards square, and finally collapsed. They spont a night and a day on a small 1100, 100 feet long, which opened up under their tent and engulfed a man, who was happily resoued. They dragged their ship's boats over ice ridges at the rate of a mile 8 day, and they rowed 760 miles to a precarious refuge on Elephant Island. From there, Shackleton left with a selected few for South Georgia, there to secure help for the .marooned' islanders, but eventually made the Falkland' Islands, aid from Port Stanley: sent a thrilling story to the world. Then ho started fcr .Elephant Island again in a friendly whaler, but was forced to turn'back.. (A second attempt, in an auxiliary sohopuer, also failed, and by this timo public anxiety in England had reached such a stage that tho British Government voted a sum for the equipment and dispatch of she Discovery to the scene. The Discovery sailed from Plymouth on August 10. MeaQTlr.le, .Sha*klelm had been lent the yacht Yelcho. by the Chilian Government, and left on August 26 on his third attempt to rench the island, this, time achieving success.} .•