A SERIOUS CHARGE.
NORTH POLE CONTROVERSY.
DR COOK'S BONA FIDES IMPUGNED. ALLEGED "FAKING." United Press [issoeiation—By Electric Telegrapq Copyright. Received December 10, 8.20 a.m. NEW YORK, December 9. The "New York Times" publishes affidavits by Captain Loose, a retired navigator, and George Dunkle, an insurance -ißent, describing in detai how, under the direction of Dr Cook, the explorer, they fabricated a full set of nautical and astronomicnl observations audi as would be taken on a polar journey. Suspecting that Dr Cook needed help, Dunkle and Loose offered their aid, and Cook, while not admitting that ho had no observations of his own, ended by ordering a full set. The men allege that Cook promised them £BOO, but disappeared after J paying a small part of that amount. The "New York Times" states it has ascertained that the men stayed in the same country inn as Dr Cook, and offers to submit Loose's observations to the Danish scientists, who will examine Dr Cook's records. Mr Lonsdale, Dr Cook's secretary, has arrived at Copenhagen.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9673, 11 December 1909, Page 5
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172A SERIOUS CHARGE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9673, 11 December 1909, Page 5
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