DID SCOTT WIN IT?

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 59, 8 March 1912, Page 5

DID SCOTT WIN IT?

AMUNDSEN BACK FROM ANTARCTIC. A MYSTERIOUS MESSACE. EXPLORER WILL REVEAL NOTHING.

(BY CABL£.—PBJBBS ASSOCIATION.— CGsPTBIGHT.)

HOBART, March 7. Captain Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, who attempted to reach the South Pole, has arrived here in the Frtm. The Fram reached port this afternoon. A fleet of launches went out to welcome her, and permission to go on board was asked. This was refused. Later Captain Amundsen landed, and proceeded to the Norwegian Consulate. He absolutely declines to give interviewers any information concerning the expedition until he has received a reply to a cablegram which he sent to Norway. SYDNEY, March 7. A private wire received in Sydney reports that Captain Scott has reached the South Pole. Professor David, interviewed, said the report was what everyone was hoping to hear, and what seemed a very likely contingency. At the same time it was strange that no official confirmation had been made through Captain Scott's London agency or from Mr. J. J Ensey (representative in New Zealand for Captain Scott's expedition) at Christ church. CHEISTCHUECH, Thursday. Mr. J. J. Kinsey, representative in New Zealand for Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition, received late to-night the following private cablegram from Sydney:— "Papers report Amundsen telegraphed privatelv from Hobart Scott reached Pole.-' _ This is the only communication that Mr. Kinsey has revived*