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)R. COOK AND HIS PRETENSIONS. INVESTIGATE!) BY EXPERTS. NO PROOF THAT HE REACHED TUB POLE. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Copenhagen, December 21. Router's Copenhagen correspondent reports tlmt the Committee of the University announces that the documents fiiihmittcd to it for investigation contain no proof that Dr. Cook ever reached the "Pole. A DAMNING REPORT. J Received December 28, 10.35 p.m. Copenhagen, December 22. The University Committee, including Rasmussen, the Arctic explorer, states that Dr. Cook submitted a typewritten report essentially identical with that supplied to the New York Herald, and copy notebooks which contained no astronomical records. The committee censures Dr. Cook for .submitting a report lacking clear information in an inadmissible degree. The original notebooks were not produced. Mr. Lonsdale (IJr. Cook's secretary) states that lie sent these by another route to frustrate a plot to steal them. Press comments in London and Now York suggest that the report ends Dr. Cook's pretensions.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 272, 23 December 1909, Page 2
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155BOWLED OUT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 272, 23 December 1909, Page 2
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