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instead brought the news of his his companions' heroic death, "in this port on Wednesday: ning, Commander Evans said oning by the progress of rting = parties, Captain uld have returned to Hut |' by March 17. Regarding the ge of fuel, he said that Scott nough fuel to last a month the Terra Nova brought every r record of the 'southern Be including the private diar- 5 Which will be handed to the re- ves of the, dead explorers. Oap- i Boott kept a daily record un- arch 24, and spent the last day riting his message to the pub- Commander Evans will com- I te Captain Scott's story for pub- ication. All 'of board the Terra Nova look toibe. in-good health, and bear no oubward signs of the hardships they haye 'undergone. "All Details Will.Be Given. A despatch from London says: In reply to a'cablegram 'from the edi- tor: of The Daily Chronicle inform- ing him of that paper's donation of £8,000 to the Soott memorial fund and asking for further news of the expedition, Commander Evans bags 'fo be'excused from "going into the details, which may be painful in regard to the end of our beloved : radon. : *'The whole history of 8 expedition,"' adds Evans, "will certainly be given to the public in dug course, but please let us com- plete our work in quietness." We A Modgod to do our utmost to + bing: this expedition to a:eucoess- ful termination." Included in that is thé publication of the scientific and other details as a lasting tri- bute to those who have not been Shred. Perhaps now you can rea- lize why the official telegram was #0 short, Burely its painful brev- $ty needs no defence." ' % What Official Report Said. In connection with the foregoing dt is interesting to note that Lieut. Eyans, in his official report, says in part: Before Terra Nova left for New Zealand last March -Burgeon At- kingon, who "had ~ been left in charge of the western party until Beott's return, despatched Garrard and Demetri, dog driven, with two dog teams to assist. the southern party, whose return to Hut Point was expected ahout March 10, 1912. Atkinson. would have accorgpaniéd this party, but was kept. back in médical charge of Lieut. Evans, seoond in command, who, it will be remembered, nearly died of scurvy. "Thi relief party reached One Ton" Depot March 3, but were com- peiled to return March. 10, owing primarily to dog food running short, to persistent bad wea~ ther and poor condition of dogs; on account of strain of hard season's work. ; Dog teams returned to Hut Point, March 16, thie poor animals mostly frost-bitten and incapable Errore ------e---- your skin, causing chaps, chilblains ¥/ and geheral discomfort, try NA-DRU-CO Fi outer in wg he. Wika Hara natrates and heals the deeper tissues. ightful after shaving or washing: 250. a bottle, at your druggist's. anions, SOUS Sito: <2, I ho] [our weather roughens and reddens port says, ge party under Atkinson, well provisioned, set out, It divided into two sections, and one of them, under Wright, Toronto man, found Seott's tent, in which were the bodies of Scott, Wil- son and Bowers." Evaporation of -0il The Christchurch correspondent of the London Daily Mail. tele- graphs an interview with Lieut. Evans, in which the commander re- fused to be drawn into a discussion of what he called "wicked rumors and conjectures." He denied the' stories of dissensions, and was ém-, phatic in his statement that the supporting party on their way back after having bade farewell to Cap- tain Scott and his comrades on their way to the pole did not meddle with the oil. 'There was evaporation," he said, '"'owing to .the leather washers | of 'the cans, and as the supplies were cut; so fine, this made a considerable shortage.' x Lieut. Evans declared that the 'rumors that. Beaman Evans had |clea gone insane were cruel, scandalous and baseless, adding that he be- haved admirably. Capt. Scott, Commanded Evans said, left in- structions that no search parties should 'leave the base to! him. He added that it was beyond hu- man possibility for the base party to have saved Capt. Scott and his comrades, Great Continents Once Joined. The "following are extracts from Lieut. Evans' story ofthe work ac- complished 'by the 'Boott exploring expedition : "The general gedlogical work done by the three parties, sou'h- ern, western and northern, is like- ly to prove of great value, especi- ally as furnishing evidence relative to a former connection = betweaun Australasia and = Bouth America through the 'Antarctic .Continent."' After describing the collection of fossil plants, coal, corals of primi- tive form, the: writer continues: '"The notes of the geologists ' are necessarily -not 'at present avail- able. Until experts have had ac- cess to this material it is unwise to make definite inferences, ~~. ° "In general ternis it may be said that there is - proof 'of temperate [ro conditions of olimate. having ob- tained in the Antarctic at two peri- ods of time in past ages." Impressive Service in St. Paul's. A despatch from London says: *'The noise of the mourning of a mighty nation" sounded thrillingly here on Friday when the British people through their representative heads joined with London's crowd in a solemn 'requiem to the: brave dead now lying in 'an icebound tomb in the Antarctic desert. King George, the members of the Cab- inet and the heads of the navy and army and other national services shared in. a stately ' ceremony in which also the nations of the world associated themselves with Great Britain through their Ambassadors. The vast cathedral 'of St. Paul; which is the résting-place of Nelson and many other great dead whose rames are on Great Britain's hero 1 roll, was manifestly the fittest place for the lofty rites to Captain Bott and comrades. LL ---- CJ 5 A BUSY ELEVATOR. ~