SYDNEY PRESS TRIBUTES

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13648, 13 February 1913, Page 5

SYDNEY PRESS TRIBUTES

SECREOY DEPRECATED

Sydney, Feb. 12

Tho "Daily Telegraph" -represents the disaster as another of .those .terrible tributes occasionally exacted from pioneers who go ahead ■ carrying tho lamp of science into the boundless region of the unknown'; The debt mam kind owes to this type is .seldom • real* iced, and still 'more' Seldom discharge cd. The regret excited is sharpened through the manner in which the piiS» lie were dieeeived regarding the true state of, affairs, and foolishly allowed to believe that the members of the ex-« pediti&a werealive and well for somo■timo after the '■ return of th© ship^ Surely such an iteni as tho destruction of the exploring .party should not have teen commercialised. Presumably tho defence of this ghastly silence is that> th«r-survivors conceived it to be theitt

duty to carry out to the letter the oon-» tract entered: into by Captain Scotfe himself. . Tlie motive can be respected .tut none the less the silence was aa amazing error of judgment.

. The "Sydney Morning Herald" sayi* that there is something which movejl the human emotions; more , strongljj than can readily he described in this story of a courageous journey. Amidstt the most terrible privations the goal was reached and priceless scientifio data gathered, and then—oblivion* .The knowledge; that the end cam© almost within reach of succour must flood! the brimming sympathy.

The City Council will forward-an official letter to Mrs. Scott.

The Royal Geographical Society of New South Wales cabled, the Roj'al j Geographical- Society at London an expression of sorrow.