IN ANTARCTICA

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1929, Page 6

IN ANTARCTICA

A VERY COLD DAY. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (By Russell Owen—Copyrighted 1929 by the New York Times Company, and St. Louis Post Dispatch. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world-- Wireless to New York Times.) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) BAY OF WHALES, July 27. This has been the worst day we have had so far as temperature and wind are concerned. A severe cold on a calm day can be withstood for a long time but when wind blows and the thermometer stays down, which is unsua.l, one cannot stay outdoors any length of time without danger of getting badly frostbitten. The thermometer registers 67 below zero to-day, and the wind has been aDove twenty miles an hour for most of the day, strong enough to whip up drift snow. The wind is also from the south-west wnich is a cold quarter. Puppies, which seem, thougher than any other animals in the world as they have known no other existence Than tnis cold life were' playing "about happily as ever. They rolled and jumped about more perhaps to keep warn!, but they coiikl still curl up in a sheltered spot and go to sleep. Their resistance to cold is astonishing, for they- never sleep in the tunnels if they can,avoid it.