ROYAL HONOURS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1684, 26 February 1913, Page 7

ROYAL HONOURS.

FOR CAPTAIN SCOTT'S WIDOW.

LORD CURZON'S TRIBUTE,

By Telegraph—Preaa Association— Copyright London, February 24. It is officially announced that the King lias granted tho. widow of Captain Scott tho same rank and precedence as if Captain Scott had been nominated a Commander of*thc Bath, as he would havo been had he survived. SURVIVORS IN SYDNEY. (Rcc. February 25, 10.45 p.m.) Sydney, February 25. On aTrival of tho Moeraki from New Zealand the survivors of tho Scott expedition were welcomed by Professor David and others. . . . Thoy stated that they had nothing to add to the details which had already been given in New Zealand. . AMUNDSEN'S THEORY. (Rcc. February 25, 10 p.m.) Montreal, February 24. Captain Amundsen denies tho possibility of tho Scott party starving to death. It must have been scurvy or ptomaines, due to bad food, he declares. IN THE ETERNAL ICE. ■ THE TOMB OF THE ANTARCTIC. (Rec. February 25, 11.50 p.m.) London, February 25. Lord ■ Curzon (Chairman of the Royal Geographical. Society), sneaking at a meeting of the society, eulogised tho ■ lato Captain , Scott, Dr. Wilson, and Captain Oates. Ho hoped that their bodies would be' left , there, with the snow, as their, winding sheet, the eternal ico as their tomb, and the solemn Antarctic wastes as the graveyard in which it hod pleased God they should sleep. "If we can.iot crown him and his companions with fresh laurel wreaths," said Lord Curzon, "at least let.us lay out chaplet of mourning upon their glorious graves." .