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Show SHACKLETON READY j FOR RELIEF DASH; LONDON, Dec. S. G:5: a m. Sir Ernest shaekleton will sail from Dunedin. New Zealand, for Ross sea on December 16 to rescue the members of his antarctic expedition ex-pedition marooned there, according to a Reiner's dispatch from Welling. The ten men whose rescue Sir Brnest will attempt are Captain Mackintosh and nine members of the crew of the Aurora. 1 who were marooned in the neighborhood of the Ross barrier when the ship broke . awav In a blizzard twenty-one months a so." Thev had only a scanty supply of i provisions at that time and nothing has ; been heard from them since. j |