THE POLAR WAR.
DID DR COOK REACH THE KILE? A COPENHAGEN. Unitoa Press Association—Eleotrio Telegraph Copyright. Received December 22, 9 a.m. COPENHAGEN, December 21. Reuters' Copenhagen agent reports that a committee of the University has announced that documents sub- ! mitted to it for investigation contain no proof that Dr Cook reached the North Pole. Received December 23, 12.5 a.m. COPENHAGEN, December 22. The Committee of the University, which include Frofessor Rasmussen, the Arctic explorer, state that Dr. Cook submitted a typewritten report t essentially identical to that supplied to the "New York Herald," and a copy of notebooks which contain no astronomical records. The committee censures Dr. Cook for submitting a report lacking clear information. The original note books were not produced, Lonsdale, his secretary, states that he sent these by another route to frustrate a p!ot to steal them. i Press comments in London and New York suggest that the report • 'da Dr. Conk's pretentions to haying discovered the North Pole.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9674, 23 December 1909, Page 5
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162THE POLAR WAR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9674, 23 December 1909, Page 5
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