THE NORTH POLE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4458, 4 September 1909, Page 3

THE NORTH POLE.

REACHED BY IR, COOK.

ABSOLUTE SECRECY MAIN* TAINED.

EXCXIEMENT AT COPENHAGEN

RECEIVED INNEW YORK WITH

ELATION.

London, September 2-

Doctor Frederick Albert Cook, % the Brooklynite vjtforer of the Arctic, telegraphed Whis wife from Lerwick as follows Successful, and well. Address, Copenhagen.” There were ho tidings of Dr. Cook since our cablegram of October sth until the arrival of the Danish steamer Hensegede at Lerwick yesterday. She anchored for two hours, and then proceeded to Copenhagen. Absolute secrecy regarding Dr. Cook’s journey is maintained, the Danish Consul himself being bound over to secrecy by the explorer before receiving any information, but the Inspector of Greenland was a passenger, and telegraphed to the Administration of the Greenland colonies at Copenhagen : —“ We have aboard Dr. Cook, who reached the North Pole on the 21st April, 1908. Dr. Cook arrived at Uperavik from Cape York in May, 1909. The Eskimos of York confirm the truth of Dr. Cook’s journey. Dr. Cook’s companion, Randolph Franck, finding the climate too severe, returned to New Foundland in 1908. Dr. Cook proceeded alone with two Eskimos and eight dog teams, laden with supplies some miles from the Pole.”

Reuter’s Brussels correspondent states that on Wednesday Locointe, director of the Uckle Observatory, received a telegram from Dr. Cook, which announced that he had reached the 'Pole, and discovered land in the extreme north. The Times’ New York correspondent says that news was received ' in New York with elation, so little publicity having been given to Dr. Cook s expedition, everybody was taken completely by surprise. Even the officers of the National Geo* graphic Society of Washington confessed they knew little about the expedition.

There is great excitement and enthusiasm at Copenhagen, where Dr. Cook is expected on Saturday.