TO THE SOUTH POLE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 180, 25 April 1908, Page 6

TO THE SOUTH POLE.

AND. CAPTAIN. THfi ALLEGED'DISPUTE. ; The--following,'-statement --regarding tho Antarctic "Expedition appears in the Over- - Seas "Daily, of Mafch-W:— . '"Captain England,' of the'; Nimrod,, w'ili. ;! neither affirm nor deny tho statements .that ;• differences' arose between himself and Lieutenant Shackleton- 1 during tho' voyage of tlio; ,' .Nimrod. y.The; men l of'the .Nimrod state that Lieuteifant.Shackloton, when the %ship- , was in a dangerous' position,. tried to tako chargo, of the vessel; and ordered full steam .ahead. Captain England,' who did not .think Lieutenant'. Shacklojton's action advisable, disputed'his right'to givo this; order, 'and' a personal [struggle Jensued: when -'Lieutenant' . 'SUacklejan. attempted., to .interfere , with, tho bridge telephone,, one of . the combatants be-' ingjknocked,down. - This story has no official confirmation,''; and- Captain England refuses to accode : t<v the request .of tho . Press to bo 'iiliowwl, .to /see .- tjio'. Niinrod's -- log.. Captain England resigned ' on the, ground of bad 'health. • ' Lieutenant" Sbackletoh announces that : the''Nimrod-'-will: not return- to ■ him until January. 1910.?'EMPHATIC DENIAL BY CAPTAIN ' ENCLAND. : ' (BY ,'TELEanArn.—TRESS ASSOCIATION.) • Christohurch, April 24. Yesterday .tEe-local papers .published a message sent to English newspapers by Router's Agency, alleging that • Captain England and-Lieutenant Shacklcton came to blows over the. command of-tho Nimrod m M'Murdo';Sound;,,yCaptain Ehgland, in conversation with a Pressman this morning, emphatically'denied that a-fight took, place; between Lieutenant Shackleton and himself. He states that there was no altercation between them'that-'could- possibly bo construed into a quafrel. Voicos were never raised in "anger bejiweenthem. :He asked the Pressman to express his -great - regret that, I such \ reports -. should have been , circulated, and.he said that .the officers of-the'Nimrod would endorso> his.< statement. : Captain' -England also denies ■ ■ paragraph in ■ tho ■ report dealing ' with 1 tho representative's of ; the; Press and -tho Nimrod-s log- He explains that on the night of his arrival,' when he was at Hillsborough, ntear 'Christohurch,'-- reporters , :from /' the ..; local newspapers waited'upon him, ; and he placed tlie log ■ on-the,'table;,:'Ho -told them that he. • would'''" not:, allow; i'ifr', to bo : taken ! a way |' but that/they: conld' have, any. information,, they required. He "did. not f refuse' the re-, quest of tho/,Press..to :be allowed to | see the log. . . ' il.. . . ... . 'Yesterliay.'' he 'disp'atchcd'"a- cable message to ' London ■ denying . Router's report,- and miking the'./sainestatements' asVare, given, above.., •" . v-. •- ■