NO RACE FOR THE POLE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13381, 2 April 1912, Page 6

NO RACE FOR THE POLE.

RESEARCH THE MAIN OBJECT,

STATEMENT BY SiII'CLEMENT

MARK HAM

[Pkess Association —Copyright.]

(Received -April I, 'VI-5 p.m.) London, April 1

Sir Clement Marklrvm. in a letter to "Tho Ti::io.v' emphasises that there *vaa no iwo to t-ht- Pole. Ho Mad recommemleu i\ .revision of Captain BalJezy's, Admiral d'Umlle's, and Captain Wilkes'R discoveries, and Dr Mawson had undertaken this. It had always been Obtain Scott's desire to complete- his own former work, and there, was no question <if racing or conquering tho -round. His object was research iv -c-os-y bram-h. Captain Amundsen's plan was different. His idea of a diish i'or the. Pole was not known to Captain Scott, but h:«\ Amundsen's, scheme been known it would not have affected Scott's pbr.