CAPTAIN SCOTT'S ACHIEVEMENT

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1383, 8 March 1912, Page 5

CAPTAIN SCOTT'S ACHIEVEMENT

UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF BRITISH SUCCESS CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN AT HOBART (Bj Telejraph—Press Association.) CHEISTCHUBCH, March 7. Mr. J- J. Kinsey, representative in New Zealand for Cap'tain Scott's Antarctic Expedition, received late to-night the following private cable message from Sydney:— ' "The papers report that Captain Amundsen telegraphed privately from Hobart that Captain Scott had reached the South Pole." _' 27iis is. the only communication Mr. Kinsey has received. {Bee. March 7, 8 -5° ?•'"■) SYDNEY, March 7. Captain Amundsen's Antarctic Expedition in the Fram arrived this afternoon from the Far South, and was welcomed by a fleet of launches. Permission, to board the Fram was refused. Later in the day Captain Amundsen landed and proceeded to the Norwegian Consulate. He absolutely declined to give any information about the Expedition to interviewers until he had received a reply to a cable message which he had sent to Norway. (Pec. March 7, 8.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 7, A private telegram received in Sydney reports that Captain Scott reached the South Pole. Professor David, who accompanied the ShacMeton Expedition, on being interviewed, said the report was what everyone was hoping to hear, and what seemed a very likely contingency. At the same time it was strange that no official confirmation had been made through Captain, Scott's London agent *r to Mr. Kinsey, his representative at Christchurch. (Bee. March 8, 0.25 a.m.) - SYDNEY, March- 7. Professor David, after comparing the time at which the news of Captafn Scott's alleged discovery of the South Pole was received and that of Captain Amundsen's arrival at Hobart, said that if Hobart was the first telegraphic port the Fram called at, it seemed impossible that the Scott report could have come from the Fram. It was, of course, possible that Captain Uviundsen himself had reached the Pole. (Special.) CHBISTCHOBCH, March 7. Captain Amundsen, telegraphed to Sydney that Captain Scott had reached the South Pole. -