DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY.
NOTHING SUPPRESSED. WORK OF THE RELIEF PARTY. LONDON, April 14. Commander Evans, of the Terra Nova, has been interviewed by a representative of the Central News at Port. Said .regard-1 ing the circumstances of the Scott Antarctic disaster. A denial was given by Commander Evans to the rumours regarding Pettyofficer Evans, and he said that nothing had been withheld regarding his fate. He behaved magnificently, and there taiiily no friction with the rest of the Southern party." There was no reason to believe that he became insane. He possibly had scurvy, but he (Commander Evans) had no knowledge that such was the case. Petty-officer Evans was carried on the sledge only on the day of his death. The members of "the expedition, he said, had not seen the five diaries which had been handed to the relatives of the dead explorers. It was not true that there were any features in the final tragedy which had been deliberately suppressed. The bodies naturally were very emaciated. Captain Scott and the others all wrote farewell letters to their wives and relatives. Commander Evans added that if Dr. Atkinson and Petty-officer Keohane had pushed further south there, would have been seven deaths instead of five. , t Lady Scott and Mrs. Wilson, he remarked, were entirely in favour of leaving the bodies at the Antarctic.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 89, 15 April 1913, Page 5
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