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Show SENT MANY MESSAGES Strenuous Effort Made' to Communicate With Wife of Capt. Scott San Francisco. Feb. 11. -The widow of Captain Scott probably knows today to-day that her husband was overwhelmed" overwhelm-ed" by a blizzard while making hia a back from the south pole, but hor. 1k recehed the news is blanketed blank-eted in the silences of the Pacific ocean Mrs. Scott sailed from here; February 5 on the liner, Aorangi bound for Wellington. N Z- 'i waai impossible to reach her by wireless In daylight hours yesterday, but the sendlnK station here believed last tllgbt that the Aorangi waw in range and repeatedlv sent messages. These should have been received but the Aoraugi's feeble sending ap- ; paralus, which has a radius of onlv abOUl miles, permitted of no ar- knowledgment that could he caught, either here or at Honolulu Today lh Aorangi will pass out of ranee en- tlrely and, Inasmuch as there is neither cable nor wireless at Papeete Tahiti oi Raratonga. her nexl ports of call, no further effort will be made to communicate with her The liner Tahiti, hound for San Francisco, and due to pass the or angl next Sunday, ha a powerful, sending equipment and mav pick Up message from the Aorangi .arid re tithei to Honolulu or the American mainland Otherwise the orangj will no. again he in touch with the world until she reaches Wellington,, February 27. |