THE VOICE OF THE PRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 227, 13 February 1913, Page 5

THE VOICE OF THE PRESS.

GEN KRAI. ECLOGIES. London, February 11. The Times says the country will ever honor Captain Scott and his comrades, who devoted themselves in single-minded heroism to the realisation of a great ideal. The Telegraph says: '''Almost within reach of the last sheltering depot, death claimed them and quenched the courage which led the little party day by day. The luiute gf Scott has been added to the country's • imperishable roll of heroes."

The Daily Mail says the tragedy is as overpowering and as moving in dignity of its heroism as that of Sir John Franklin, and victory has swallowed up deatli.

The Chronicle says the results will be | such that science will be able to say that Captain Scott did not struggle or die in vain. - • ' Sydney, February 12. . The. Telegraph' says Captain Scott's death represents another of those terrible tributes occasionally exacted from pioneers who go ahead, carrying the lamp of science into the boundless region of the unknown. The debt mankind owes to tliis type of men is seldom realised, and still more seldom discharged. The regret excited is sharpened ,through the manner in which the public was deceived regarding the true state of affairs, and was foolishly allowed to believe all members of the expedition were-alive and well some time after the return of tlie ship. Surelysuch an item as the destruction of the exploring party should not' have been commercialised. Presumably the defence of this ghastly silence is that the survivors conceived it their duty to carry out to the letter the contract entered into by Scott himself. The motive can be respected; none the less the silence was an amazing error of judgment. The Herald says: "Thereis something which moves the human emotions more strongly than can readily be described in this story of a courageous journey amidst the most terrible privations; the goal reached, the priceless scientific data gathered, and then oblivion." The knowledge the end came almost within reach of succour must flood the brimming sympathy.