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Show PARIS PAPER PUBLISHES PART OF PEARY'S STORY PARTS. Sept. 10. The first 'installment 'in-stallment of Commander Peary's recital re-cital of bis expedition lo the north polo was published in a special edition of the Matin today, and had an enormous enor-mous sale. As notieo was given that the article was copyrighted, tho othor newspapers handled it. with care, but in their comment com-ment there is noticeable a disposition to criticize. This is perhaps due to the fact that Commander Peary's reflections reflec-tions upon Dr. Cook aro considered ungenerous. un-generous. The Temps is especially caustic and expresses the opinion that the first nart of Peary's recital is really favorable to Dr. Cook, rt says Peary's story is obscure and even inconsistent, pointing out particularly that whereas his diary up to March 15 is scrupulously precise, thereafter it shows a hiatus and the dales arc obscured and confusing. For instance, when the story stops, Captain Cap-tain Bartlctt had been sent back. Severe Criticisms. "The expedition was then in S7. IS ,and still far from tho pole," the Temps says. "Peary now proceeds nlone, and whatovor" suspicion was raised against. Dr. Cook is ocpialry applicable ap-plicable to him. Peary's recital up to tho present offered nothing more worth' of credence than Dr. Cook's. It is true, he affirmed, that polar obsession obses-sion creates a sort' of madness, any hypothesis, even the most unfavorable is permissible Against both explorers.'' The Figaro says: "Nothing is "nioro painful than Ihc spectacle of this quarrel on the threshold thres-hold of glory. It embarrasses the sympathy sym-pathy which" naturally goes out to these two great men. Keturning to civilization civiliza-tion the' encounter jealous)'. envy, calumny, ignoble bickering and hatred of success; the) become the prey of parlor explorers and savants, who raise objections where they risked their lives. Their affirmations will be discussed and weighed by societies and savants with a keen desire to find them wrong and convict them of falsehood." The Illustration prints a full-page picture of Dr. Cook entitled, "Hero or rmposter." The illustration says it offered to publish a rcproduction Cook 'h diary, and notes of ItisTgTT jo; vations on ' April 21. 1908, theTrca?: when he arrived at the pole, butni& Dr. Cook declined the offer, saying.!-the saying.!-the documents were on their wa.fa-J tho United States. |