RIVAL EXPLORERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9599, 20 September 1909, Page 5

RIVAL EXPLORERS.

FURTHER STATEMENTS BY PEARY. SATISFIED HE WILL BE BELIEVED. United Press Association-By Electrio Telegrapc Copyright. Received September 19,. 5.5 p.m. NEW YORK, September 19. Commander Peary declares that he will not participate in any effort to reach the South Pole. In an interview Commander Peary says that he regrets that he did not take Captain Bartlett,. who was in command of the ftoosevelt, to the North Pole with him, though he is satisfied that the scientific world and general public will implicitly accept his stacement that he reached the Pole. Commander Peary added that Mr C. Whitney, the millionaire, who is at present in Greenland on a shooting expedition, told him in August last that Dr. Cook claimed to have reached the Pole. Dr. Cook's Eskimos, being at Etah, Commander Peary says he obtained statements and rough drawings, showing that Dr. Cook only made two marches over the Polar ice and then returned. CAPTAIN SCOTT'S EXPEDITION. LONDON, September 17.' Dr Wilson, who was second medical officer, zoologist, and the Antarctic exploring ship Discovery, has been appointed medical officer of Captain Scott's projected Southern expedition. Mr F. Drake, late of the Royal Navy, is secretary of the expedition. Captain Scott discredits the Labrador mailboat's story—that Com • mander Peary and Captain Bartlett are already making preparations for an expedition to the Antarctic. Experts in , New York also discredit the report. The consider that Peary requires a long rest after tie hardships of his journey in tke North.