DR. COOK MOBBED.
DEMONSTRATION IN COPENHAGEN. Police Protection Sought. COPENHAGEN,..October 28, Dr. F. A. Cook, who two and a half years was ; acclaimed, as the discoverer of the North Pole, had a.lively, experience upon his arrival in Copenhagen yesterday; ► The people here had not forgotten the doctor and his graphic narrative okhow he reached the Pole, and were ready to give him' the only sort-;of reception to which,they, thought, he was entitled. r As he 'made his way through the streets of the city the doctor Soon found himself the object of hostile, demonstration, and he was finally obliged _to seek the aid ;of the jpolice in protecting him from the mobs bv-which he, ; was:followe(!.‘-v f ij'« 'j-'. Dr.. Cook, has abandoned the;. lecturing tour that •he.intended to-make' in; Europe, ahd will speak only in Copenhagen, where he hopes to convince; the' Danish scientists that he really discovered the North Pole.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13522, 2 November 1911, Page 6
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151DR. COOK MOBBED. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13522, 2 November 1911, Page 6
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