Show STORM BRAVE BRAV I BAND DANn f Of 5 RETURNING fROM SUCCESSFUL QUEST fOR POLE POl Five F ve Including Famous Commander Lose Los Lives in Blizzard Had Blizzard Had Reached Exact 4 I Spot Wh Where re Amundsen Planted Norwegian FI Flag Flag g. g Bodies dies and Records are Re Recovered T L x I I b. b 11 A A- A number l of de Scott t and f four fou lr of his bis men special dispatches of t the c Central New out from the tent in which the four me nu and exl exhaustion an tion to brave hran death alone ii il I 1 I tails stalls tail o oC or the disaster in which Captain rl rI 1 in tile the Antarctic A are brought here in iii service Captain Gates Oates i e evidently set setu m u ll had all hut but succumbed to starvation n 11 1 the bl blizzard which had overwhelmed overwhelmed- After a brave struggle for weeks with ith his hands frostbitten Dales Oates de declared declared de- de dared to his comrades that he lie was wasI I coins oin to set bet out in ill thc the storm and did not know when he would come como bark back He lie left the te tent t and was never seen again He Ic evidently e knew he was setting out ont to med meet his death al alone The Tile others later tried to push on hut but were forced into camp again on March lil 11 l. l after aftel nine nine lays days struggle in in the blizzard Food and amid fuel were both exhausted ted Probably realizing that his party part was doomed Captain Scott entered in his diary four foul clays later later on on March arch a 3 a message age to fo the time public n Inthis In Inthis this thus he declared that the thc disaster was not t h tine duo o to faulty organ organization but to misfortune He lie tai said taId l nobody in the time IL ly to en- en cOl nt rA h. h tn r S and l sni l a ej irad IUd hie I on lie li H ch so o retarded d their theil When they arrived e within ch eleven miles of One Ton Oil depot they only had llad fuel for foi one hot hut m meal 11 anti and food tOed for two Iwo lays days The doomed explorer wrote rot apologetically apologetically apolo apolo- olo- olo of or his rough h notes He lie said ahl these and th the bodies niu must t tell toll the thu t tale He lie ap appealed to hl his countrymen for fOl forlie forthe the lie care of or those thosa dependent u upon on the peri perishing hing explorers According to tho the special dispatches tho the I Terra Ira Nova r relief relict party part which found the bodies bodies' rca read a simple burial ritual over oyer them themA A cOvet cover was wn erected Q el over ovel th the bodies The rhe relief reHe expedition then set act out in M search atch for tor the bo body of or Captain Oates but lUt although h they covered CO O over twenty miles thc they discovered l co no rio trace of oC his body It was with great difficulty cult culty that the party brought bark back all of th tho th records including letter to the king of or Norway s and a t lar large e quantity of or geological ical specimens March 25 5 1912 the date data o of C Scott Scotts last lat messa message c to the public is b believed to have p been written only four fOUl days before death overtook o the pa party r t y London Feb 10 Only Only mener meager de details de- de taUt tails are available 3 as yet of the tho polar tragedy which cost the tho lives of Capt F F. Scott and four o of hs hr bra c c cI companions and which ranks In disastrous ills dis I re results with the a fated Ill ted Franklin expedition I News of the death ileath o of Captain Scott ott and his men who succeeded l hr by y a a. final inal da dash a h in i reaching caching the thc South pole only onh to find proofs that I roald Amundsen had forestalled them camp came in a brIef dispatch from I IS E. P. P n. n c G. G R. R Evans ivans of ot the royal loal navy Y who ho was wa s second In command when the expedition e 1 Commander or and who now signs as The me message age was StI signaled from tile steamer Terra Nova Xo returning from front fromI I Continued on on Pa Page e 6 Column i SCOTT PERISHES PERISHES' ON RETURN TRIP FROM SOUTH POLE Continued I From rom Page 1 t. the antarctic regions while passing New cw Zealand S TIre Tile staggering effects of or the news new newson on the public mind Is 18 all Iho tho greater as It was believed that modern and recent experience had completely complete dl c divested polar polar- exploration of at its former for for- mer t terrors No great would woul have been felt had Captain Scott failed to reach the pole but th that t h he lit should perish in his hour o oC of triumph was as time the vcr very last thing timing that could b bt anticipated ant and In view of the dangers which still exist the fato fate 01 ol Captain Scott and his companions Is im likely to discourage Curt further her attempts to reach time the poles now that both have ha been attained and tho circumstances circumstance of oC hurried dashes prevent valuable scientific results from being obtained Probably Recovered No Xo detailed d facts are arc yet et known hulIt hut but It Is believed that the thc records of ot thi th scientific material collected with time the explorers explorers' bodies have ha boer been recovered reeo ed It alko albo Is II understood that gallant at attempts attempts' tempts tempts' were made by other members of oC th the expedition to lo succor the Scott party but hut these were defeated tl b by severe Io weather condition and ik ol ni food tood It seems practically certain that thai time the explorers starved to death eath Dr Jo Marshall Marshal who ho was surgeon sur sur- goon geon to the Shackelton expedition SUg suggests that the Scott party part in lh th blizzard maj mat have missed sed one nun of or its supply depots which ar are generally germ gen genI marked b by iy an upturned sledge I with a n. flag lashed to It I I The fact that Captain Amundsen reached his base from Crom the time pole In lii thir ty t days dan while time Iho Scott party part I had been tra traveling lIn more than two months when disaster overtook them thorn is believed cd to 10 show that Scott must either cither have met sonic some misfortune possibly pos pea sibly in a crevasse asle or encountered re 1 a n succession of ot blizzards The fact that Pelt Petty Officer r Evans rans died from Crom ans concussion onus concus sion slon of the time brain as carl early as February 17 seems to In indicate some Iome such accident acci acci- dent possibly involving ol the time loss o of a portion of or the time equipment Captain OateR Gates died rIled on March h 17 which clearl clearly shows that time the party part were In dire dhe straits and m must st have ha undergone terrible sufferings during the tue remaining twelve days das No Xo news has been received recel as to how the time fate tate of oC Captain Scott and nd Ills his companions com wa was discovered erell but it is as as- s' s that that- thata a rescue party was as dl ella dis dispatched patched from the ba base e |