SYMPATHY IS NEW SOUTH WALES.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13647, 12 February 1913, Page 5

SYMPATHY IS NEW SOUTH WALES.

PJIOPESSOR'BAVID'S VIEWS

TERRIBLY ARDUOUS TTNDER- - ■•.. -. • TAKING. y-;y ■.. - -.. (Received ;I^bi. 11^5.55 p.m.) • '['.., Sydnesf,Feb.ll. ' Th^rMs intense int^est in and univensal'soiTOw atj the fiate of Captain Scott'and hid pasty. ...;

THe.Stat^.Gbvern'm^n* cabled tb the British. Tauthoiuties/an* expression of griergvat .the disaster t&at" !uad overtaken thse bi*ave men, and; as a special mark of sympathy ordered; that the flags on th^Npublic buildings, be- fora half-mast h%h throtigltoiit to>-in<wrTOiw.

Professor David', in an interview, said the news «£ the death; of Captain Scott and' liis comrades. ■ was only too true.- He-3iadi received a cable from Mr Kiiisey confirming it. The sad. occur/rence was all the mare tragic on acwiW-t of "tho proximity ©£ the brave party to tli© \sinter qjiaarter©.

He surmises they may-have, iv the thiek 3 drifting snow -caused by tba/-con-tinuous Viizzards, missed ~ono o£ tJie food depots when ' weak from .fatigue and long endwranee of escos&lvo cold. It must be remembered a-3 . epmparetl with Captain Amundsen's party, that mticlt as thejT suffered and..;<sidured far more intensely they had ,t© drag; th« sludges over liundreds-of snilep, inchKi-' ■ing a bitter wind-swept,<" plateau ,4on. thousand feet" high; ; *' -llhis fciJU'Jwlly heavy and protracted; work "must havi? told on tlieir constattitioris, /though they werq,of, the hardiest.';' In view of the comparatively slow^progress r on'■.the return journey, one oouJtt"'-not help : tihinking that the .whole,' of "the : party could not haye ;hee& ■' in the boet of