INTERVIEW WITH NANSEN.

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

INTERVIEW WITH NANSEN.

A WORLD CALAMITY

'",'•'■• . Christiana, Feb. 11. ; Dr! .Nansen, interviewed regard:tag:

the suggestion of Mr. Louis Berna^chi,. tho Antarctic explorer, that Captain; Scott -and his ; comrades were, siafyedj to deaiih through. inadequai©; ' p-recau-■ '■tioiis. pwing}£o;.an3riel^ to rSafehvth&^qle' jbefore :Amundseft; is needJess : to consider such ■, ''■»' .me'%jTigfesa; conjecture. Captain- Soott ytfas too VpVudent to make inadequate -prepar-a-; ■ I'owoing 4 to fears of Amundsen. • Dr. Nansen says that Captain Scott'B j death 1 is a terrible calamity -aiid <£ Jofi>j 'to England and the world. Our only| | consolation is /that the shields of tfe ! men, who so gloriously - fought for the: honour and benefit of the world are as bright and shining as the*.snow which covers their graves. ,