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Show BITTERNESS PREVAILING j Rescue Party Blamed For Failing to Push on to Relief of Scott I Christ Chnrch, N Z. Feb 14. Iii tens- bitterness prevails among B e tinu of the members of the late I a tain Robert F Scott's Antarctic e.xp uitlon over the failure of the rescu party to push south vigorously their marqh to the relief of th plorers, who had been to the Soutt pole. The belief Is expressed th.i 'aptaln Scott, )r Edward A Wl .and Lieutenant H R. Bowers, the la: , three to cii-. could have been laved jthlfl had been done The relations between romm.iu : Edward R (J R Kvans and Kdw;:i L. Atkinson are said to be very m strained. Some of the survivors sa that Pe :y Officer Evans became insane owin to the privations be had undergon and was occasionally verv violent 1 1 declined to help pull a sledge and condition became so serious that I had to be carried. Captain Scott's reference In h note to an unaccountable shrink of food at the depots surprises Iii supporting parties, who deny Hiat thi made anv undue use of It |