BYRD EXPEDITION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 716, 16 December 1933, Page 5

BYRD EXPEDITION

(Special to the United Press Assn.

| days GROW LONGER FALSE ALARM OF ICE AHEAD CAUSES AMUSEMENT CONSERVING STORES Rec. Dec. 15, 7.15 p.m.

-from the Byrd Expeditioii). At Saa, Dec. 14. The Jacob Ruppert is making full speed on a south-easterly course and her 24-hour run at noon was 240 miles. .The days grow perceptibly colder and longer and it will be Thursday all day to-morrow as well as to-day. The energies of the crew are being directed to preparing for the impending stf uggle \Yith the ice-pack. There is a fe'eling of a warship being prepared for action. Admiral Byrd has issued strict orders for the conservation of food and materials. , "We are entering the great noni shop area of the world Uiid whatever is wasted or lost, eannot be replaced," he said when r'eprimandirig a new liian who tossed a stray piece of I timber overboard. "You might have to wait 100,000 years for the Antarctic to produce a piece of timber that big," he added. There ivas another striking incident tb-day. As the vessel was steaming ahead, the ship's bell set up stri-

dent clamouring and upon the bridge the engine-room telegraph was swung full speed astern. The whole ship shuddered and men raised themselves in their bunks wondering when the erash would come. Then up from the engine-room came an Homeric laugb. An inexperienced hand had struck eight bells and the vagrant wind carried the sound to the bridge where it sounded like an ice-berg alarm from the forecastle head.