Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-01
SIR ERNEST SKACKLETON
AND HIS PARTY ARE SAFE
His Ship. the Endurance. Wreck cd
in WaddeIl Sea, but Ex-
plorcrs Escape.
HEARD FROM AT PORT STANLEY
Welcome News Reaches London Just
rs Asquith Informs House That
Committee Is at Working Organ
izing Relief Expedition.

Especial Cable 10 The Times -OispatchI
LONDON. May 3i.-Slr Ernest Shack
Teton ana Its Antarctic party arc safe
His stir ,hn Endurance WIS
wrecked IL WaGLcl sea. ou! tnr rX-
plorcrs escaped.
y message r-ce.I+G ,o-mie.h, from Sir
Ernest follows:
Fort Stanley. FnlNland Islands, May 81.
y have arrived here. Thr ,.ndur-
ancc was crushed III The middle Of
Wad''oN Sea on October %. i.l.. She
driIted 700 .,ilcs in the ice until April
-, this "car. We landed on Elephant
Island or April Ii lef, or April "a.
leaving twenty-five men III q hole in
the ice cliffs there. and proceeded for
help towards South Georgia with five
men In a twenty " o-:oot boat.
nj the ;irnr % leaving the island
AZ! we're Well. but in urgent need OF
assistance.
"Sii..cKI. .ET'oN"
LADY Sha"kle,oH WAS Immediately.
notified Of the safe arrival Of her hus-
band AZ Fort S,nniey. she wns over
;oyeG.
am ZOO happy to say anything 1T
this time" ahe told new spape- men.
The welcome news Of the safety OF
Shackleton and his men reached Lon
don on top OF statement in the House
of Commons hy Premier Asouith
TO CoNsJDEH METHODS
OF ORGANIZING RELIEF
The Premier informed the House to-
day that a committee had been ap-
pointed by the admiralty to consider
methods or organizing relief expe-
n
men. He added that Parliament would
he asked to vote the necessary funds
for that purpose. and that the expo
dition woull be started with little
delay as possible.
There had been much agita.ion Ter
relief expedition ever since tho news
of the mishap to the supply shi5
Aurora. which returned to New Zealand
early this year
The greatest relief is felt ut Sir
Ernest's safe return without the loss
OF single life. and IL quite over
shadows any disappointment, that might
otherwise he felt at his having heen
prevented from Carrying out the plans
with which he started on the cxpcdI-
ton
In reaching the Falkland Islands
Shackieton has emerged from the bot
tom OF the world at the same side as
he descended into II. instead Of cross
ing the central core--the South Pole
and coming out In the other hemisphere
as he planned.
If the world was an orange, the
Falklands Islands would stand very
close TO the Island Of South Georgia
from which Shacklcton sailed on the
final stage OF his Journey into tbo
ice. Were the orange peeled from top
the two places would probably be on
the same slice. Both are In the region
of the South American continent
Shackleton's intention had been tt
return to civilization on the other aid
of the orange. which would bring him
toward New Zealand, where his disa abled
supply ship Aurora arrived a month or
two ago.
LAST MESSAGE SENT
IN NOVEMBER, lof,
1t was in November 1914, that
Shacklcton sent his last message &c
civilization before sailing from South
Georgia, cold. but inhabited, island
In tho South Atlantic Ocean. about
eighty miles nearly due east Of Cane
Horn and within 81 degrees of the
South Pole. at that time he said:
You munt not look for us until
about the beginning OF March. 1916 at
New Zealand The Endurance will re
turn to South Georgia also about tina
time ana do some work scientiticaIly
and thon go to Buenos A4res."
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