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Show Information Has Been Received at the PallMall Gaxette, London, Purporting That the Expedition of British Navy, Which i Left for Antarctic Regions in7 July, 1907, . v , . 1 Is Successful w 'j r - y i London, March 23. Information has reached London, according to tbe Pall Mall Gazette, that the Antarctic expedition ex-pedition under Ernest Shackelton of tho British navy, which lert England la July, 1907, reached tho South polo. London. aMrch 23. A cablegram wjas received this afternoon djlrect from Lieut, E. P. Shackelton, the Ant-, Ant-, arctic explorer, who, earlier in tno day. was reported as having reached tne South Pole. The contents or thla message' have not yet been given out, but It haa been declared, by high authority, au-thority, that the explorer failed of success suc-cess Tho expedition was obliged .to return when within about one hundred miles of the pole. The secretary of the Royal .Geographical .Geo-graphical society said 'today that ne had no Information as to Lieut. Shaclt-elton's Shaclt-elton's success but this does not flu-1 prove tho statement, as It Is known the lieutenant contracted to furnln the first news regarding his explorations explora-tions to the London newspapers. It is considered significant, however, how-ever, that Lieutenant Shackelton when he came ashore at Invercorgltl, N. Z., refused all information regarding th details of his exploration. He at onct went to the cable officials and dispatched dis-patched a message,' He looked the picture of health and Intimated that all bis comrades wero well. Lieut. Shackelton's expedition bade farewell to England at Cowleg In July, 1907. The last visitors to his ship, the Nimrod. were King Kdward and CJuean Alexandra. His majesty presented the lieutenant with a union Jack to whicli was attached a card bearing the message: mes-sage: "May this union jack, which 1 entrust en-trust to your keeping, lead you aa-ly aa-ly to the South role." |
