SIR ERNEST SHACELETON INTERVIEWED.

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

SIR ERNEST SHACELETON INTERVIEWED.

AMAZED: AT f THE 'DISASTER,

COMMANDER PEARY'S SYMPATHY. ,

London, Feb. 10.

Reuters New : York correspondent" .interviewed Sir Ernest H. Shaokleton, who accompanied Captain Scott on ink first .expedition to Antarctica, and was leader- of the 190&-09 British Antarctic Expedition. , He said he was amazed at the disaster.to S^6tt?s party.' Ifr^as'; inconceivable, ho 'said, that ;&ar expedition so well equipped could perish in a blizzard. ■He himself; had, faced' the severest blizzards■,without disasteV.; } -,'

Commander Peary, the discoverer of the North Pofe, mterViewed1, expressed his heartfelt sympathy for MrsV Scott and the lie^atives of Captain Scott'a brave comrades. ~ .