Explorers Reseued.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7942, 4 October 1905, Page 2

Explorers Reseued.

AN ARCTIC EXPEDITION STEAMEK CRUSHED IN THE ICE.

HOXXINU-SVAAG. lAug. 10. All the -members (if the tfiegler polar expert Mi on have reached here in good health, with the exception ci one—S. Myrhe, of Norway—who died from natural causes.

Uy Mr Eiala's orders, the steam yacht America wintered in Teplitz Hay. She was crushed bv ice early in.the winter of 1903-t, wild was lost with a Im-gv quantity cf coal ami provisions. Three attempts lo reach a high latitude failed. The scientilic work of the expedition was successfully carried out under Mr W. ,J. Peters, of the I.'iiited States Geological Survey.

Mr Fiala desires Router's Agency publicly to wxpress the united thank's of the members of Hie expedition to the Dukotof the Abruzzi, t 0 the Jack-Hon-Harimsnorth Expedition, and U the Aivdree -Relief Expedition, for the stores left In the Franz Josef Archipelago, the use of which saved thorn fr«m serious privations. They also wish to thank Mr W. S. Champ, commanding the relief expedition ; Surgeon Mount. Captain Kjcldse», and his Norwegian oflicers and crew, w-hc, on the s.s. Terra Nova, for six weeks persistently forced their way through solid floes of ice, and effected 'a most timely rescue. The Ziiegler Expedition started for the Arctic in 19011, and since duly of that year nothing had liven heard of it. A relief expedition-was fitted out in 1901, and returned after three months' vain endeavour to reach Franz Josef's Land. The serum! relief expedition, which has been successful, started for the Arctic last June. The Terra Nova, which carried the expedition, was one of the relief ships of llie'Hritish Antarctic Expedition.