STATEMENTS BY OTHER EXPLORERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1672, 12 February 1913, Page 7

STATEMENTS BY OTHER EXPLORERS.

CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN HORRIFIED. ' ~'.-• New York, February 10. Captain Amundsen, tho Arctio and Antarctic explorer; who is at Madison, Wisconsin, when told of th© Scott disaster, exclaimed, ''Horrible! Horrible! There must be. some horrible mistake." Ho ■identified the spot mentioned in Captain Scott's records as the South Pole. The Norwegian flag was left there. SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON AMAZED. ' New York, February 10. ; Interviewed hero, .Sir Ernest Shackleton, .the Antarctic explorer, said he was amazed at the disaster. It was. inconceivable that an expedition so well equipped should perish in'a blizzard.; Sir Ernest says his party'faced 'the severest blizzards without disaster., ' Sir 'Ernest Shackloton did not believe the:story, at first.. Ho had thought scurvy would havo been a greater peril than blizzards. , ; -~ '■■•■ ' COMMANDER PEARY'S , SYMPATHY. .'■',,'■ ■'.- New, York,' February lb. Commander • Peary, '• interviewed, said his' heartfelt' sympathy■'. was with Mrs. Scott and the, relatives of Captain Scott's brave.comrades.'";■.'. .', .. ..'■''

STEFANSSON'S OPINION. (Rec, February 11, 11.5 p.m.)

-.-.-. ~: . ', New York, February 11. . Mr,,V r ..Stefansson, tho, Arctic explorer, says no blizzard was likely: to shave killed Captain. Scott. -It was probable, "he'said, that the cause was', starvation or" falling. into a crevasse.;- • i ■"' '■'"■' '■■■' •'."-- ■

;7 V ■..'.'..' MRS. SCOTT..;.;:' .-.. EN ROUTE TO NEW ZEALAND. '■' v „'',,•■ tdhdon, February 10. Mrs. , Scott, wife of Captain Scott, is ■ now'on tho high'seas between San Francisco .and Wellington., ■..;'. ( '•;,'. San Francisco, February 10. Mrs. Scott is aboard the Aorangi. She will probably be notified of the' sad affair by wireless. •, RECORDS RECOVERED. CAPTAIN SCOTT HELD OUT LONGEST (By Telegraph.—Press Aa'MoiiiiouJ . ChrltUhurch, February 11. ■ K_is stated unofficially that a search party recovered the records of Captain Scott's Polar party, which show ' that when the members sickened Captain Scott, held out tbo longest, and nursed his 'con-' jpanions as long as ho was able,.and'kept a'diary till the'last. ' '.;•'.;