THE LOST EXPLORERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1680, 21 February 1913, Page 5

THE LOST EXPLORERS.

——o— IN SPITZBERGEN. BELIEF PARTY'S PLANS. By Teleeraph—Press Association—Copyright Berlin, February 10. Captain Isachsen, a Norwegian, will command tho expedition that is being sent to reliove Lieutenant Schroder-Stranz and the three others of the German expedition who have been lost in tho Arctic. The relief party intend to liso reindeer instead of dogs. It will be thro'o weeks before the ship reaches Spitzbergen. , i THE SCOTT DISASTER. MR. ASQUITH'S TARDINESS. London, February 19. The "Fall Mall .Gazette" demands that Mr. Asquith (thd Prime Minister) end tho undignified silence regarding the Government's intentions concerning the Antarctic heroes' dependents, and ; soys its inaction is paralysing the efforts of: the public; ' ' : ROTAL DONATIONS. ! (Rec. February £0, 9,50 p.m.) s - : London, February 20. His Majesty:the King'has donated X2OO to the Mansion House fund, Queen Mary ,£IOO, and Queen Alexandra ,£IOO. ; Lord Curzon (Chairman of the/ Royal Geographical' Society) states' that he his verified his calculation with regard to the expenses of the expedition, i .£30,000 was required. " ■ , JOINT FUNDS TOTAL 420,000. (Rcc. February 20, 11.5 p.m.) • ' . ■ London, February 20.' .'The Antarctic Expedition Committee's Fund hai been amalgamated with tho : Lord Mayor's Fund, the two jointly totalling JE20,000. In his sermon, at the Jewish Synagogue, .Wellington Terracq, tho Rabbi (tho Rev. H. Van Staveren) paid a tribqto to the ibomdry of tho, late Captain Scott and the others who perished with him. He did not agree.witll the'suggestion that tho bodies of the, dead explorers should bo brought back froni tho Antarctic. Cap-, tain, Scott a ltd his companions had,' ho said, fallen on the 1 altdr of research,- and tho 6pot where they died had becomo sanctified, v .Last night the. Wellington City Council resolved, on the.motion'of the Mayor (Mi\ D. M'L6rcn)i '■That this council, jon behalf of the whole of the citizens of Wellington, places upon record its deep sense',of sorrow:ok ■account of the Sad 1 occnrrence that has befallen tho heroic members of the Scott Antarctic Expedition, who gave their lives for tho. advancement of science, and in tho . high interest'of humanity. 'We respectfully tender to the relatives of those' most brave men our. heart-felt sympathy with them in thiir great loss, which is a sorrow that is shared by all."