THE POLAR TRAGEDY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 83, 15 April 1913, Page 5

THE POLAR TRAGEDY.

XOTHING SUPPRESSED. i.By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Asstoti rn. i London, April 14. The Central News, in an interview with Commander Evans at Port Said, says he denies the rumors regarding Edgar Evans. Captain Evans says nothing was withheld regarding his fate. Ho behaved magnificently. There was certainly no friction with tiio rest of the southern party, and there was no reason to believe that lie became insane. Possibly he suffered from scurvy, hut ho had no knowledge of it. He was only carried on a sledge on the day of his death. The members of the expedition had not seen tho five diaries, which had been handed to the relatives of the deceased men. it was untrue that there were any features in tho final tragedy that had been deliberately suppressed. The bodies were naturally very emaciated. Captain Scott and the others all wrote farewell letters to their wives and relatives. If Atkinson and Koelmne had pushed further south there would have been seven deaths instead of five. Lady Scott and Mrs Wilson were entirely in favour of leaving the bodies in Antarctica.