BYRD WEATHERS STORM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 589, 15 February 1929, Page 9

BYRD WEATHERS STORM

GOOD JUDGMENT SHOWN SHIP SAVED FROM BERGS BY RUSSELL* OWEN Copyrighted. 1925. by the "New York Times” company and the St. Louis "PostDispatch.’* All rights for publication reserved throughout the Vorld. Wireless to the "Now York Times. ’ Reed. 9.5 a.m. BAY OF WHALES, Wednesday. The storm appears to have broken. The wind is( shifting to the southeast. and although the sky is again overcast, there is a long line of pale green on the southern horizon, which indicates that clear weather is coming. Ever since we put to sea we have been cruising back and forth outside the icecapes in a narrow lane of water between two enormous packs of heavy floes. Fortunately the currents around the capes keep the space clear despite the wind. If Commander Byrd had not ordered the City of New York seaward the moment this pack began to appear, it would have crushed us like matchwood. Where we formerly lay, there is a berg a mile long and 40ft high, which would have crushed a battleship. About 10 o’clock at night the light has been perceptibly growing fainter because of overshadowing clouds. One can feel that the winter is coming, although as yet the temperatures are fairly high, it being 27 degrees at six this morning.