POLAR EXPLORERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1753, 19 May 1913, Page 5

POLAR EXPLORERS.

FATE OF GERMAN EXPEDITION. \ LEADER STILL MISSING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Christiania, May 16. A dispatch from Strakrud, leader of tho Norwegian relief expedition to Wijde Bay, states that Lieutenaht SchroederStranz, leader of the German expedition, is still inissing, and that Dottmers and Moeser were drowned, while Everhard was frozen to death, and Stavo succumbed after an illness.

It is stated in Berlin that there aro differences between Strakrud's party and the German larger relief party. [Four members of tho Schroedor-Stranz expedition, who reachcd ; Advent Bay last month, reported that two others were safe in the quarters of tho Swedish survey expedition at Trournburg Bay, but that tho aviator and tho cook wero dead. Lieutenant Scbroeder-Stranz left the ship in August last on a sledge expedition, but did not return. Tiio explorers went north in the ship llerzog Ernst, of G1 tons, under (he command of Captain Ritschel. The story told by Captain Ritschel, when he reached Advent Bay, in West Spitzbergen, was that the expedition only had / provisions for one month at (ho most, and that most of tho party wore, ho feared, in last stages of scurvy. 1 He had been compelled to leave his companions behind, exhausted with cold and hunger, oh Wijde Bay. A relief expedition was sont from Norway in February last.] CAPTAIN SCOTT'S ESTATE. (Rcc. May 18, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 17, The estate >of the late Captain Scott, the Antarctic explorer, has been sworn at .£3231. £ Captain Scott left certain securities to his mother for life, witli the remainder to his wife and the rest of his property to his wife.