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Discovery's Men Return to Their Ship P0LAR ANNIVERSARY
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(Received 20, 9.10 a.m.) • LONDON, Jan. 19. The Governor of the Falklands on board H.M.S. Ajax, which has been . searehing for a survey party of six Which was landed from £he Discovery II. on King George Island, South Shetlands, sent a wireless message to the Colonial Office early this morning: — "Missing party located and has re* turned to the Discovery. All's well." News of the search for the Diseovery's survey party arrived on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Captain Seott'a reaehing the South Pole, The Discovery II. left England on September 30 last with a crew of 50 to obtain data of the stoclcs of whales in Antarctic seas, their distribution, and life history. It was expected that she would be away for 20 months, during which she would visit Australia, New Zealand, and the Falkland Islands. The names of the men involved have not been announced, but it is learned that Mr James Walker, assistant editor of the "Western Mail" at Cardiff, has been notified by the Admiralty that his son, Lieutenant Walker, who was married just before sailing, is among the missing. Lieutenant Walker led a party from the Discovery to rescue Mr Lincoln Ellsworth.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 4, 20 January 1937, Page 7
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