NORTH POLE PARTY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 613, 16 September 1909, Page 7

NORTH POLE PARTY.

ANOTHER VERSION. PEARY AND ONLY ONE EBKIMO. COOK AND WHITNEY. ID» Telegraph,—Prea« Amoclatlon.-OooTflelitJ New York, September 14. A telegram from Battle Harbour, Labn dor, brings the statement, derived from men bers of tho expedition wbo wore on bojrd th Roosevelt, that Commander Peary and on Eskimo alone reached tho North Pole, an that Honson (Peary's negro servant), an tho other three Eskimos who wore in th filial-dash wcro left one inarch south. Peary's Polar expedition, in tho sfceame Roosevelt, will leave Battle Harbour, Labn dor, on Saturday for Sydney, Nova Scoti: Fifty reporters arc awaiting tho party's r< turn. ■ ■ V , . , "CONCRETE PROOF." ' (Rcc. September lßj 11 p.m.) New York, September 15. Peary declares he has concrete proof tho Cook never reached the Pole. He await Cook's statement beforo'.replying, Peary addij that the whole facts will pro! ably be known in •'half a year. _ [The cablegram is given as received, thoug it is not clear , why bucli a period as half year Should be fixed.] . . CONTRADICTORY. .. NOW York, September 14. Dr. -Cook -stated that he entrusted soin notes of his observations to, Mr. Caspa Whitney, who was on a sporting expeditio in Greenland. • . , Peary telegraphs that he has no knowledg of Dr. Cook having given Whitney any r< cords. There are no Cook records on th Roosevelt. . • (Mr. Whitney—we wore told •in yesterday 1 cablegrams—states that in North Greenland, i the Etah country, he "met Dr. Cook, who spolt of his journey north, but did not mention tho ho had reached the Pole."] LATJRIER'S COMPREHENSIVE CLAIM. • ; Ottawa, September 14. f Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister c Canada, demands all the territory betweei tho North American boundary and the Nortl Polo, as the recognised hinterland of Ca.nada