The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-23
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ABSOLUTELY No PROOF THAT
 POLE WAS REACHED. SAYS COPENHAGEN. UNIVERSITY.
HIS RECORDS ME OF NO AVAIL
story Written for New York Herald About All the Proof Submitted to the scientists--The Verdict Final One.

q Copenhagen, Dec. 22-The Univer- E sity of Copenhagen, the first institu- *tIon of learning to recognize Dr. Fred #erlck A. Cook as the discoyerer of sthe North Pole, has solemnly declared *that the explorer had failed to esIab- Elsh the claim on which his high hon. &ors had been based
 # The committee appointed by the uni Esersity to examine Cooks records re- Eeently presented It's report to the con History of the university, which re- Eyewed the deductions of the experts Ewith the greatest care and discussed Elhe findings from every standpoint. EThat both the committee and the con History were disappointed was soon EkEown.
 The Proof Not There.
 The consistory met to-day and adopt ed written report to the effect that 7the alleged records submitted for ex- smination by Doctor Cook failed to proye his claim.
 The report of the committee, of (which Professor Stromgren was chair nan, as presented to the consistory ktates that Cooks papers are without any value; that his report to the uni yersity is practically the same as that esbIished in the New York Herald on Dis return from his Arctic expedition The copies of his notebooks submit ted. says the committee, contain no brgnal calculations of observations but only results thereof. Accordingly the committee concludes that he af- tmds no proof of having reached the tole.
 The Proofs" Cook Submitted. The documents handed the commis- on of the University of Copenhagen Rpr examination are:
 First, typewriter report prepared 8y Cooks secretary, Walter Lonsdale, koyering 61 pages of foolscap.
 Second. typewriter copy made by onsdale from Cooks notebooks. This ecupies 16 pages of foolscap and in. hdes description of the expedition ar the period from March IS. 1908, to ane l3, 1908, in which, according to De statement, Cook jonrneyed from yartevog to the North Pole and re nrned to a point on the polar ice not Specifically indicated. but west of Axel Ieiberg Land.
 The papers were not accompanied y private letter from Cook, but Secretary Lonsdale stated verbally tc De commission that the ori final notes |nd books of the explorer from whicf s copies were made had been seni Europe by another route as a pre- autionary measure and would be de sered to the university fin the course fa few days.
 The Verdict a Final One.
 New York, Dec 22.-That the Uni ersity of Copenhagen had declined t, eeept Doctor Cooks claim that h. sd reached the North Pole came al o surprise to scientific circles her nd to many of his friends who hal leen prepared for the result by tn Mly indications that the claim oald not be favorably passed on.
 Doctor Cook is now in Christiand and, Norway according to William I Took. his brother.
 Mir. Cook said that the doctor ha reatly recovered from the nervou 'eakdown from which he was suffer ng when he left here. MT. Cook d. |ared that the explorer was ready t to Conenhagen to give the univel Wy further information concernin s claims.
 What Peary Has to Say.
 Washington, Dec 22.--"Just thre ohihs ago, from the Labrador coas
 sounded an explicit and deliberatel
 0Fded warning to the world, base lon complete and accurate informs
 on in regard to the Cook claims. ong so I accepted the respoDsibilit
 growing upon me and fulfilled III
 NY to myself and to the world"
 With these words Commander Ro
 E- peary pointedly expressed h fh'iments today regarding the fal
 's Of the University of Copenhage
 md any proof of the discovery
 North Pole by Doctor Cook.