BYRDS’ BACKERS
MAKE EMERGENCY REQUEST. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (■Received this day at 9. a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jun. 23. Byrd’s backers requested the emergency assistance of the State Department upon receipt of word that several members .of 'the Expedition were in danger of their lives, clue to the difficulty the steamers Eleanor Bolling and City of New York were bx'poricpcing U'ni (the ■ unprecedented condition of the ice pack , The backers asked that the aid of the Norwegian whalers be solicited to assist Byrd’s vessels to penetrate the ice and proceed to Little America.
(Note There is no mention of danger to lives in the direct radio message received this morning from the Bay of Whales.)
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1930, Page 5
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