SUPREME COURAGE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 698, 6 May 1916, Page 14

SUPREME COURAGE.

SCOTT AND HIS COM- ! RADES. MONUMENT UNVEILED IN ST. PAUL'S. PRIME MINISTER'S ELOQUENT TRIBUTE. By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. (Received May 6, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, May 5. Mr Asquith unveiled, in St. Paul's Cathedral, a memorial to Captain jScott and his companions. He said: "It would he idle to apply a conventional eulogy to Captain Scotl. Besides being" a great explorer, he was jone of the most courageous and most devoted of sailors. The story of Captain Oates's death will become a classic. - "These were men, showing in the iilim Polar twilight, without a witness, without knowing whether their record would ever reach Great Britain, a supreme quality for thoughtfulness, courage, and endurance—and this before the great ideal, which, on a world-wide stage, is now testing the national manhood. "While we are justly proud of our heroic warriors on sea and land, let us not forget the imperishable debt and the tireless example which the Empire owes to Captain Scott and his comrades." The Lord Mayor attended the cere- j )nony in state, and there was a great j poncourse of notabilities. I