SHACKLETON’S MEN IN NORTH RUSSIA.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 20 August 1919, Page 4

SHACKLETON’S MEN IN NORTH RUSSIA.

i ■■ - “ TALLY HO, WORSLEY! ’ ’ j We have heard from time to time , that Sir Ernest SKackleton and his men, j -who have been attached to the North 1 Russia Expeditionary Force, did moat 1 excellent work there last winter. The , experience gained in the Antarctic was 1 most useful. On one occasion it was ! reported that, in order to bring relief to an isolated force, they made a sledge journey of 300 miles, and the temperature was 40deg . below zero. The special correspondent of the London “Times," referring to the coming home of the Royal Scots from Dvina, where for ten months they upheld the traditions of their race, writing from Ust Puicga, on June 9th, states:— “Returning home, at every point they pass, cheers from their comrades rise und paeans of praise. When they left Bereyuik the siren of every craft in the river shrieked a farewell, knd whatever welcome awaits them at homo the .Scots arc proud of the impression which they leave behind in Russia. “I left Archangel to meet the men' from the trenches and the' blockhouses, but 1 was twenty miles from Bereyuik when their barge swung round the bend of the liver. Our barge was taking the Oxford and Bucks relief, and was tied up while the men bathed. When the Scots were sighted cheers were sent across the water, while the signallers Ragged ‘Good-bye’ and ‘Good Luck.’ j Prom the Scots, tired and war-weary, but supremely happy, since their work I was done, and home was almost in . sight, came the slogan ‘Tally-ho!’ This is the cry that carried them through a hundred battles with the Bolsheviks, and every huntsman at home when he , learns of the triumphs won will find a i deep thrill 'of emotion in the call. In I November, when the Scots feared that j England had forsaken them, acute depression threatened, but Lieutenant ] Frank Worslcy, who was with Shackle- ! toil’s expedition, came to inspire fresh hopes. No propagandist ever reached ; such heights. Ho taught them the j slogan and came to be known as ‘Tally- | lio Worslcy.’ “Captain Frank Worsley, D. 5.0.," j was with Sir Ernest Shackleton when the Endurance was crushed in the Wcddel Sea. It will be remembered that after the party arrived at Elephant Island, Sir Ernest Shackleton made that wonderful voyage in an open boat 22ft long to South Georgia for ' assistance. Worsloy and Sir ErnMt ■ Shackleton navigated the boat, and, j after landing in South Georgia, Shackle- | ion. Worsley, and Crean crossed South I Georgia to Stromness Bay and civilisa- ( tion. j “Worsley is well known in Welling- ’ ton. Ho was born at Akaroa and was I captain of the Countess of Ranfnrly, j and used to trade with the Islands, j When the War Offico asked Sir Ernest Shackleton to go to North' Russia, he | asked that Worsley, Stenhouse, and others might be allowed to serve with him. This was readily agreed to by the War Office and the Admiralty."