ANTARCTIC WINDS

Evening Star, Issue 20132, 23 March 1929, Page 12

ANTARCTIC WINDS

THE WRECKED PLANE JUNE’S DESCRIPTION [By Russell Owen.] Copyright, 1923, by the ‘ New York Times ’ Company and ‘ St. Louis Post-Despatch.’ All Rights for Publication Reserved Throughout the World. Wireless to ‘ New York Times.’ BAY OF WHALES, March 21. (Received March 22, at 10.30 a.m.) Relating the story of the wrecked aeroplane Harold June, after describing the fury of the wind, said: “ It had done all it could to us when we turned in for tho night. Next morning the wind dropped. Wc saw our plane a mile away in the snow blocks, where sho had been anchored. The craft had been lifted straight up, while the blocks of snow which had been piled on the skis of the plane were strewn for a quarter of a mile. “Despite tho dangerous nature of the icy surface, Balchea went to the plane. We could sec him crawling back with a knif’o and skis and a stick to hold him from being blown away. Ho was long in returning. Then he exclaimed ‘ She’s a wreck ! ’ “ In tho afternoon we wore all able to go to the plane, as the wind was blowing at the rate of only forty miles an hour. Tho plane lay 50ft from whore she had first hit. All agreed with Balchcn that the plane was certainly wrecked.”