New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-01
Antarctic Explorer Ar
riVeS at Falkland
Islands.
DRIFTED MONTHS
IN WEDDELL SEA
Men of His Party Left on
Elephant Island in Need
of Help.

London, June 1.-Lietuenant Sir Err
nest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer,
has arrived safely at Port Stanley,
Falkland Islands.
News that Lieutenant Shackleton
was safe reached London soon after
midnight The message was from the
explorer, and announced his arrival at
Port Stanley.
Shackleton's message said that his
ship, the Endurance, had been
crushed" in a Weddell Sea ice flow
last October, but that it drifted until
midwinter, when he and his party
landed on Elephant Island, in the South
Shetland group.
The explorer left in small boat with
| five men a week later 10 summon help,
leaving twenty-five men behind. All
of them were we'll, but in situation
which demands the quickest possible
help.
The text of Lieutenant Shackleton's
message to "The Chronicle" is as fol-
lows:
81 have arrived here. The Endurance
was crushed in middle Weddell Sea,
October 81. 1915.
"She drifted seven hundred miles in
ice until April Q, this year. We landed
Elephant Island April l6. ] left April
"a. leaving twenty-five men in hole in
ice cliffs there.
proceeded for help toward South
Georgia with FIVE men in 22-foot boat.
At the time of leaving the island all
we're we'll. but in urgent need Of rescue.
"SHACKLETON."
The gravest fears had been enter
tanned for the explorer during the last
two weeks, owing to the absence OF
news from the Endurance. and in the
House OF Commons yesterday Premier
Asouith said that the government had
approved of a committee appointed by
the Admiralty to give advice regard
ing a relief expedition.
News of the safety Of Sir Ernest
and the small party with him has not
lessened the necessity for relief. which
Is even more pressing now III behalt
Of the men left behind on the ice on
Elephant Island, probably scantlly
provided with provisions and other
necessities, as we'll as in behalf OF tne
Ross sea party, which was STRANDED
on the Great Barrier through tne
breaking away of the relief ship
Aurora. which returned to New Zeal
and early in the year.
The shackleton expedition TO cross
the Antarctic continent from MeGdeli
Sea TO Ross Sea started from England
in August, 1914 ,o
Early this year the steamer aurora
with a section Of the party aboard, re
turned to Port Chalmers, \. H., haVlng
broken adrift in the ice IN ROSS sea
ON May 8, 1915 Eight Of her men were
ashore. and nothing had been heard
from Sir Ernest and his companions
who had sailed for Weddell sea.
The fact that the section of the eX-
nedition headed by Shackleton returned
10 its virtual point Of departure means
that the expedition failed in its ,pri-
mary object. This might have oeen
due 20 difficulties encountered on the
Journey 70 the pole, or the return OF
Shackleton to the South Atlantic may
have resulted from failure to meet the
second section Of the expedition pro-
ceeding from the opposite direction.
Owing to the drifting away OF the
Aurora, il would have been impossible
for Shackleton 10 complete his journey
BY way of the Australasian route.
Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, TIE
Endurance, sailed from London on
August 4. 1914. for Buenos Ares
whence il was 70 start for the Ant
artic. Lieutenant Shackleton followed
on September y. and on October 20.
the Endurance left Buenos Aires.