POLAR EXPLORATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 194, 20 September 1909, Page 2

POLAR EXPLORATION.

PEARY'S PROOFS.

By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrigit

Received ID, 5.5 p.m. New York, September 10. Commander Peary declares that ha will not participate in any effort to reach the South Pole.

Peary, interviewed, regrets that h* did not take Bgrtlett to the Pole,' for, though he lias aatisttcd the scieatifle world, the general public would implicitly accept his statement that' he really reached the Pole. Peary added that Whitney had hold him in August that Dr. Cook claimed to have reached the Pole. Cook's Esquimaux being at Etab. Peary obtained statement* and rough drawings showing that Cook made only two murches over the Polar ice and then returned. '

A REPORT DISCREDITED. London, September 17. Captain Scott discredits the Labrador mail-boat story that Commander Peary and Captain Bartlett, master of the Roosevelt, have decided to make an expedition to the South Pole. Experts in Now York also discredit the atory and consider that Commander Peary requires a long rest after hii hardships in the North.

CAPTAIN SCOTT'S EXPEDITION. London, September 17. Dr. Wilson, second medical officer, zoologist and artist on the Discovery, is to be medical officer for Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition. Mr. F. Drake, late of the Royal Navy, ia to bt secretary to the expedition.