CAPTAIN SCOTT'S FATE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144070, 15 April 1913, Page 3

CAPTAIN SCOTT'S FATE.

STATEMENT BY COMMANDER EVANS. NO PACTS SUPPRESSED, By- Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright. LONDON, April U. The Central News, in an interview with. Commander Evans at Port Said, says ho denies the rumours regarding Edgar Evans. Commander Evans says i nothing was withheld regarding his fate. Ho behaved magnificently. There was certainly no friction with the rest of the southern party, and there was no . reason to believe that he became insane, Possibly he suffered from scurvy, but he had no knowledge of it. He was only carried on a sledge on the day of his death. The members of the expedition had not seen the five diaries, which had been handed to the relatives of the deceased men. It was untrue that there were any features in the final tragedy that had been deliberately suppressed. The bodies were naturally very emaciated. Captain Scott and the others all wrote farewell letters to their wives and relatives. If Atkinson and Kcohane had pushed further south there would have been seven deaths instead of five. Lady Scott and Mrs. Wilson were entirely in favour of leaving the bodies in Antarctica.