The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-03-12
SOUTH POLE FOUND,
STATE DISPATCHES
HONOR SEEMS TO HAVE GONE TO
CAPT AMUADSBN.
Neport That Norwegian Explorer has
Been Successful, Generally
AecePted.

London, March while intense ln-
terest has been aroused in the fesu1S
attained by the South Polar expeol-
'tions under command Of Capt. RonaIu
Amundsen. the Norwegian explorer
and Capt Robert F. Scott, Of the BTU
shh royal navy. respectively which are
returning from the Antarctic regions
dispatches reaching here on the SUD-
1ect are conflicting. Capt. Amunosen
has arrived at Hobart Tasmania, on
Sha steamer Fran, and according to
%be first word from that port, he de-
o9ared that Capt. Scott had reached
the pole. Up to late hour tonight
koweyer. no word to that effect has
anne to Mrs. Scott, wife of the British
oYDforer, who still doubted the
achievement and reiterated her hopes
t6ak the news would prove, true. Nor
did Lieut.. Evans, the London secre>
@arY of the Scott expedition, receive
any word of Capt. SCOTS reporter
success, and he assumed he would De
smong the first notified, probably by
n message from Capt. Scott himself
Shrough the agency of Capt. Amund-
sgn, if it had happened that the two
explorers crossed tracks after thelr
Sieno+cb IN tho Pole
Amundsen Expedition.
With regard to the results of the
Anundsen expedition the dispatches
reaching London from various points
gave early reports that the Norwegian
sxrlorer had not been successful IN
his quest. Later, however, a Copen-
hagen dispatch said that the Social
Remokraten published news from
@hristiana that a telegram from
member of the exploration party de-
elared that Amundsen had reached the
South Pole. Other reports seem to
confirm this.
Reports of Amundsen's success ap-
pear at the same time to have dis
posed of the rumor that Capt. Scott
has reached the Pole. None of the au-
thorities we're inclined to credit this
latter until confirmed.
In the dash for the Pole Britishers,
while hoping for the success of the
British, entertained fears that Capt.
Amundsen would win the honor, as
his previous experiences made him a
formidable competitor. 1t was he who
discovered the Northwest Passage in
1905.
Race for the Pole.
Amundsen had with him a hard
band of Norwegians, who probably
were greatly aided by skis in travers-
ing the glacial ice and he put his faith
IN Siberian dogs for the supply
sledges. He had an advantage OF
nearly eight months over Capt. Scott
IN the race for the Pole; his base Of
supplies was nearly one hundred miles
nearer the goal and his was not a
scientific expedition but one designed
30 move swiftly.
The steamer Farm is the vessel with
which DR.. Nansen made journey OF
thousands of miles in the Arctic Ocean
in 1893-96, and on which Amundsen
planned to drift with the Arctic ice to
the North Pole. Amundsen started in
April, 1909, to carry out the drifting
trip in search of the North Pole, but
shangd his plans, and in the following
year proceeded by way of South
America for the Antarctic. Early IN
1911 Lieut.. PennaI, Of Capt. Scott's
expedition, sent word from Stewart
Island that he had come on Amund-
sens ship in the Bay of Whales, Ross
Sea, where the Norwegian had made
his winter quarters.
Amundsen Given Honor.
London, March 8.-While naturally
there is bitter disappointment every
where over the fact that Capt. Robert
Scott, head of the British Antarctic
expedition has yet to report on his
guest for the South Pole, there is no
where anything but praise for the
achievement of Capt. Roald Amund-
sen, the Norwegian explorer, in locat-
ing the Southern axis Of the earth.
Not even an fnkling Of the present
Whereabouts of Scott and his steamer,
the Terra Nova, was reached London
NJ +ho En1lishrnan,s agent in New