INSTANT RELIEF OF SHACKLETON URGED.
[TJnitto PbeSs Amsooiattom "1 London, May 6. The Daily Chronicle says that since no news has been received of the Endurance, steps must be taken without delay to organise relief expeditions to both the Ross and Weddell Seas, but the difficulty is to find a suitable ship. There are probably not half-a-dozen in the world, and all would need considerable refitting. If the enterprise were commenced at once it would take three months* to' complete arrange■merits' 1 The lives' of forty men are in peril, and 1 our l national 'credit would suffer if, while erecting a memorial to the herofc dead, we lag in our duty towards) the hei'bic living] Buenos'Aires'reports that there is no news of the Endurance; and i't is not expected that the vessel will get ! out of Antarctic this season. The Dailv' Chronicle states' thai the i * t i ! ' Government has decided to organise a Shackleton relief expedition.. . ,
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 29, 9 May 1916, Page 2
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158INSTANT RELIEF OF SHACKLETON URGED. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 29, 9 May 1916, Page 2
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