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Show 11 EXPLORER DEAD M 3 WEEKS ERE H WORLD IS TOLD 1 i Death Comes Unexpectedly 1 to Sir Ernest Sliackleton f 1 on Voyage I ALL BRITAIN SHOCKED I Irishman Famous for Bis- WtM covery of South Magnetic A Pole Few Years Ago :pH Bl'EN'OS AIRES. Jan 30 (ByTi, 3-9 Associated Pre I More than JJret jlVS weeks elapsed between i the fleath o 0 mk lr Ernest Shackleton. the British e fi EH piorer and Its iC ai rived at Mont.. . He- Th- d-.a aJFB Naclons Mont' iolegraphs was ascribed b Captain U, V Hussey. vvho accompanied the bpdy, J due to a series of wireless ml-nips BSH Sir Ernest died aboard the stenrn-l mH ship Quest on which he was making HMFJsP ,i,oih-r antarctic ..wg. j . chored off South Gfeorj H I Lnuary 5 His boi i K if Montevideo on the first leg "i tno 1 irip home aboard th Non i Bteamhip Professor S f WIRELESS NOT WORKING capl tin Tun -v t. . n pondent thai tin MM 3outh (.. orgta I i tid II i h i mmW wireless plant out of commission du- H 1o damage iy luaw storm, onelut i HnLT the vovage which othorv - uu-1 mm . . ntful. Sir Ernest had been m i u HjH ; i,est of health throughout the trip. T 1 hp dav before his death he landf on the island to supervise the purchase J of provisions and returned to the shit V upparentlv well. After f upper he went IpJ to the cabin and talki d w Ith his i -paniona I i l l B SH IRP PAINS nV At 3 30 the morning of January he felt sharp pains In his bai It and . p..,-, the docto vho 1 ad hi rdl: ln - 9k g dorer died without utterln Pa Sft-al When asked why the inform the Kalkk.n.i is'.-.n.!-- Bf minor wireless set. Captain l BVJ -.aid it riot sufficiently powerful H The wireless equipment of the Pro- LSHHl fessor Cruvel also was out of orde-, mmkm declared. mWM Sir Ernest Shackleton was born in BH i s T 4 Mo was a third lieutenant in K9 the British national Antarctic expedl- mwm t,on m 1901 und n 1907 110 conim;,n'i' mWBm ' 'l a" expedition which got to within S 97 miles of the south pole He madi WmM his third quest of the pole In 19U. H The expedition in which he was cr.- PH gaged whtn he filed was to have co - K9 -red 30.000 miles of uncharted sec - H Hons of the South Atlantic, the Pa- Bb clflc and the Antarctic Kfl on board the Quest a little 200. ton ship, Sir Ernest .sailed from England Bfc. ' hal mH been a two-year voyage. KB The voyage had as Us objective, not E only oeeanographi- ) search but the exploration of s petrified forest and H9 the location of a "lo l I- land Tu.in- mM .-Ki t'n- adjacent watc 9 of which had fv"4 been sailed for more than 00 bsV .1 in addition, sound! weri to Bl been taken of the ocean plateau sur ffia rounding Gough's Island, in an effort wSt to determine, the truth regarding a EL supposed underwater connection bc- H$H tween Africa and America. llB Tin ' left Rio .lanelro De B bar 18 for South Georgia island, which lies off the -a.si coast of the southern - ' C nost portion of South Amerlcn Silt 12 UN 1 1ST IHIsn W Sir Ernest was an Irishman Hi 1 w.im edu ited at Dulwlch college, and 5 .ifter graduation went to sea. it n . - HH in 190G when he organized the sxps- i it ion to the South Pole which brought him hin greatest fame 1 H was this expedition that discovered the South Magnetic Pole He reached HH a point nearer the South Pole than HH had been attained before. Hp His 1914-16 expedition was prolific H in valuable geologic and scientific sur- ti PARTY R l ( l ED. m H The ship Endurance, wh BjLF. Shackleton rnnrt- the vnyax, v;:-i rush-d In iii BllMB drifted until mid-wint-r when the ex- I Hp. I.lorer and his parly landed "ii Ell ' phant island, in the Soutl Shetland WiH group. Shackleton. In a email boat BlKI -ith flvn men. left for I'ort Stanley, HkEB in the Falkland Islands, becking Sid KjjH for the 22 men left behind L'ltl- HjUSH mately the party was rescued 1 Sir Ernest married In 1904 to Emily HflH Mary. Two sons and a daughter were |