POLAR CONTROVERSY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 483, 21 September 1909, Page 3

POLAR CONTROVERSY.

CAPTAIN SCOTT TO MAKE A DASH SOUTH. Nkvv York, September 19. Lieut. Peary declares that he will not participate in auj ? effort to reach the South Pole as it was stated that he would do. He has informed an interviewer that be regrets that he did not take Mr Bartlett to the Pole with him, though he is satisfied that the scientific world and the general public- will implicitly accept the statement that he really reached the pole. Lieut. Peary added that Mr Caspar Whitney, the well-known writer and sporting authority, who was hunting from Etah, told him in August that Dr. Cook claimed he had reached the Pole. -

Cook’s Eskimos being at Etab, Lieut. Peary says he obtained statements and rough drawings from them showing that Dr Cook went only two marches over the polar ice and then returned. Dr Wilson, who was second medical officer, zoologist and artist on the Antarctic exploring ship Discovery, has been appointed medical officer of Captain Scott’s southern expedition, Mr F. Drake, late of the Royal Navy, is secretary of the expedition.

Captain Scott discredits the Labrador mailboat's story —that Commander Peary and Captain Bartlett are already making preparations for an expedition to the Antarctic,

Experts in New York also discredit the report. They consider thar Peary requires a long rest after the hardships of his journey in the North.