THE SILENCE BROKEN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 11 March 1912, Page 5

THE SILENCE BROKEN.

CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN LINTERVIKvVED.

KING GEORGE'S CONGRATULATIONS.

(Received 8.50 a.m.) HOB ART, This Day

Late last night Captain Amundsen consented to be interviewed. He declares that there is not much to add to the •cabie. His base w<is 400 miles from Captain Scott's. He does not know when Captain Scott «sade his dash to> the Pole. Captain Amundsen camped nearer the Pole than Captain Scott, as the latter preferred dry. land for travel, while Captain Amundsen elected to make his way over the barrk-r. He sincerely honed that Captain Scott reached the Pole, and might Jiave done s>o before him, since it was his second, attempt. Captain Amundsen added that lie had received hundreds of congratulatory mesages, including . one from King George..

ARTICLE BY SIR E. SHACKLETON - - \

(Rec. March 11, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, March 10. Thc> "Chronicle" congratulates the Pacific Board on the expeditious and excellent transmission of a cablegram filling a newspaper page. -Mr W. T. Stead congratulates the "Chronicle" for demolishing Dr Cook's, claim to discovering the North Pole, and on establishing Captain Amundsen's in regard to tile South Pole. , Sir' E. Shackleton, in an article, sa.ys that Captain Amundsen undoubtedly reached the geographical Pole, having easy travelling and fine weather. Ho adds that the plateau christened after King Haakon is the same as he (Sif E. Shackleton) named, after King Edward the Seventh.

"A WONDERFUL STORY." PRAISE FROM PROFESSOR DAVID. (Received 9.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Professor David considers that tain Amundsen's is the most wonderful ;,tcry .■ ever brought back t>y an explorer. The most striking fact is that Captain Amundsen did not use Sir E. Shackletoh's old tracks by way of the Beardmore Glacier, but did a sporting thing, which " was by far the most important in the interests of science, and struck South from his winter quarters. Th.-. partv was extraordinarily favoured regarding weather. Captain Amundtf sen mentioned that one man and two dogs fell through the ice. In tho case of Sir E Shackleton, almost everyone fell through the lids of the crevasses <jverv day. Evidently the Devil's Glacier "was far more favourable than the Beardmore Glacier for sledging from the point of view of travelling with speed. Captain Amundsen's famous march has seldom been equalled and "ever surpassed The discovery that from 88.20 de-recs to the Pole the plateau sloped downwards was, scientifically, extremely interesting, and shows that there aic no important ranges of mountains such as would check the outflow of ice Wmz midway between Ad-lieland and Wcddel Sea.

CAPTAIN SCOTT'S PARTY. N Z. REPRESENTATIVE'S CONFIDENCE. CHRIST,CHURCH, March 10. Mr. J. J. Kinsey (New Zealand representative of Captain Scott's expedition) interviewed regarding Captain Amundsen's expedition, said he 6till behoved that if Captain Amundsen reached tlie Pole on Deoember 14, Captain Scott was. there before that date. He had complete confidence that with the experience Captain Scott had on ice, man for man. and equipment for equipment, it would be found that the Englisman had readied the Pole first. If Captain Scott had reached the Pole it was n,ofc at all likelj that he 'would return immediately, because a complete exploration -programme had been mapped out. Captain Amundsen -might have found another glacier o-iving access to the Polar Plateau Glacier east of Beardmore.