BYRD STILL BUFFETED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 588, 14 February 1929, Page 9

BYRD STILL BUFFETED

BAD STORMS AWAY SOUTH SHIP IN THE OPEN SEA £’Y RUSSELL OWEN Copyrighted, 103 S. by the “New York Times” company and the St. Louis “J?ostDispatcli.” All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to the “New York Times.” Received 9.5 a.m. BAY OF WHALES, Tuesday. The weather has continued execrable, and we still are beating up and down in a stiff nor’-easter, waiting for the storm to pass. The barometer is going up; hut that does not mean much sometimes down here. This is the seventh day of unrest, and it does not appear that we shall get back Into the bay ice for some time. The ship is practically unloaded. One more day will finish the work. Our position is complicated by the fact, that this long and unusual spell of wind from the east and north brought down a lot of heavy pack-ice from an unknown region above us, and, so as not to he caught between it and the bay ice and squeezed, we have had to thread our way through large floes and get entirely outside the bay into the open sea. The conditions must he very unusual,, for Captain Amundsen’s Fram only put to sea twice during her stay here, whereas we have almost lost the track a number of times. We have left the bay ice to avoid being crushed against it by the sea.