The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-25
Death Enters DIR. Mawson's
Exploring Party.
ONCE SAFE ON BOARD SHIP
Stop for Another Expedition
and Are Lost.
Antarctic Ice CompeIs Ship to
Leave Them.

S'NAioS' reD. @o--IWO members OF
the Mawson Antarctic expedition, Lieu
tenant MINIS. an Englishman. and DR..
Merz' swiss, have died. DR.. Mawson
ana six companions have been left
ior the winter on Adele Land, a bar
rem tract in the Antarctic. because
they were unable to reach the expedi-
uon's ship Aurora before it was conn
PEELED to leave
1his news is received here by wtre-
less 1rom Adele land, via Macouarte
island
Prof. David. who was a ner,h.r a,
Sir Ehrest ShackIeton's South PnIe ~.
Peoltion' received the following vvira-
less dispatch from Adele Land.
LIZ. douglas Mawson and several Of
ms men missed the Aurora. which had
sone TO retch them under the com
mand OF Captain j. K. Davis Thts
happened owing to unfortunata c,r,,,.,. -
stances. Lieut.. B. E. s. MINIS. of the
CITY OF London, regiment of EovaI
fuslilers and DR.. Merz, who was SKI
CHAMPION OF Switzerland in 1908. are
oorn oeao. All the others are well.
Dr. Mawson and six other Tnan,-
pers or his party probably will wintar
on Adele Land "Au'eR
some very successful sIedgine ex
peoltlons were made during the So
?ourn or DR.. Mawson and his comnan-
AO-AO
Former Message All Were Safe
ne ast previous message received
here from the Aurora arrived E1ah,,,'e.,
IL ana said all the members of ar -
peoItIon were on board the vessel II
"ould appear therefore that DIR. pong
Ias MaWson, with some of his com
He1Hions' must have landed and gone
on an expedition from which thev 1e-e
unable to get back in time 10 retotr,
the aurora before the ice Compelled her
to leave. P9iieo her
The expedition. headed by DR. Maw-
son set out from Australia in the
Ia.ler part OF 1911. 1t consisted OF
ates of the Universities of Australia
ana New Zealand. 1t was financad b.,
popular subscription
Dr. 1Mawson was not seeking tha noIa
but proposed to make a complete Eco
graphical and magnetic sIlrvev of tt,.
antarctic region between CAM 49,
and Gaussburg, a distance of over ? 0o0
miles. -''OV
The expedition landed on Adele land
which is barren tract of what has
also Deen known as Wilkes land after
the American explorer, and the men
here divided into three parties Ero,,1
time to time there have come reports
OF the success of the explorers in the
discovery of new plants and only re-
Gently after having been out of COM
mission for several months what pur-
ported to be a wireless message was
picked up from the Aurora "aIl well
on board"
British Army Hit Again.
Once again through antarctic dis
aster the British army is af-
fected by the loss of a brilliant Off
Ger, Lieut.. B. f. s. Ninnis of the fam
Gus Royal Fusilliers regiment He was
a close friend of Captain Lawrence
Oates, of the Inniskillinp draRoons
who perished while returning from the
South pole with Scott.
Switzerland also has suffered a great
loss by the death of DR.. Merz, a promi-
nent scientist and sportsman. After
winning the ski jumping championship
services to DR.. Mawson.
They Did Not Seek Pole.
Lieut.. MINIS was the expert of the
expedition on surveying the sledging.
The wireless messages hitherto re-
received from the Aurora do not state
the cause of his death or of that of
DR.. Merz.
The expedition started out not with
any idea of rushing to the South Pole.
but with the intention of exploring
and naming the unknown lands of the
Antarctic and making numerous OBJ
servations around the magnetic pole.
According to the wireless reports
from DIR. Mawson the principal objects
of the expedition were attained. I'm
Mawson and six of his
companions, after they had been pick
ed up by the Aurora undertook another
expedition and were unable to reJoin
the ship which was compelled TO
leave them to spend another year in
the Antarctic.
Lieutenant Ninnis, according to a
later dispatch, was killed by falling
into a crevasse nearly a year ago. His
death was practically instantaneous.