The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-08
Norwegian Explorer Announced
To His Home Papers
IN TWO DISPATCHES TO-DAY
News Was Received With Great Joy in
Norway and Congratulatory Mes
sages Were Sent to the Ex-
plorer at Once.

Christiana, Norway, March S.-TwC
local newspapers to-day received dis
patches from Captain Roald Amundsen
announcing that he reached the south
pole ON December Ia. The dispatches
read:
pole reached enth-seyenteentll
December"
The rejoicings over Amundsen's sue
cess in reaching the south pole are wide
spread. The feeling of the people was
voiced in the StorthiHg by President
Frederick konow who said: "We are
proud of these men, our fellow country
men, and that they once more succeeded
in covering the name of Norway with
glory"
The Storthing telegraphed to Amund-
sen at Hobart, Tasmania, its warmest
greetings and thanks.
Hobart, Tasmania, March S.-Captahf
Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explor-
err denies having teegraphed anything
regarding Capt Robert Scott or the
British expedition to the south pole.
Up to the present, Amundsen is thc
only person who has landed from the
steamer Fran. and nobody is allowed on
board on any pretext whatever.
Beyond saying that he is pleased with
the results of his trip. Amundsen main
tains silence on the subject.
Capt. Amundsen intends to remain
here for a few days and then proceed
in Australia After leeturing there he
will depart for Europe by the circuitous
route Of Buenos Ayres then around Cape
Horn. up to the Bcring sea and through
the Northwest passage and the Arctic
ocean.
London March S.-While intense inter
est has been aroused in the results at
tanned by the south polar expeditions I'M
der command of Capt. Road Amundsen,
the Norwegian explorer, and Capt. Rob
ert L. Scott of the British royal navy,
respectively which are returning from
the antarctic regions. dispatches which
have reached here on the subject are
conflicting Captain Amundsen has ar
rived at Hobart, Tasmania on the steam
er Fran, and according to the first word
from that port Amundsen declared that
Captain Scott had reached the pole
However no word to that effect has
come to Mrs Scott, the wife of the Brit
ish explorer, who still doubted the
achievement and reiterated her hope that
the news would prove true.
Nor did Lieutenant Evans, the London
secretary of the Scott expedition receive
any direct word of Captain Scott's r.
ported success, and he assumed that he
would be among the first notified. prob
ably by a message from Captain Scott
himself, through the agency of Captain
Amundsen, if it had happened that the
two explorers crossed tracks after their
dash to the pole.
With reference to the results of the
Amundsen expedition, dispatches reach
ing London from various points gave
early reports that the Norwegian explor
er had not been successful in his quest. |
Later, however, a Copenhagen dispatch |
said that the Social Demokraten pub |
'lished news from Christiania to the eff |
feet that telegram from a member of |
the Fran expedition declared that j
.Amundsen had reached the south pole /
Other reports seem to confirm this.
The reports of Amundsen's success /
appear at the same time to have disposed |
of the humor that Captain Scott had /
reached the pole. None of the authorities |
here were inclined to credit this latter
report until confirmed.
In the race for the pole, Britishers, /
while hoping that success would rest I
with the British representatives, enter
tained fears that Captain Amundsen
would win the honors of discoverer for
Norway. His previous experience in arc.
TIC and antarctic regions made Amund-
sen formidable competitor. 1t was he
who discovered the Northwest passage
i'm 1905, and after other explorers had
vainly made the attempt for years.
Amundsen had with him on the pres.
ent expedition hardy band of Norwe-
gians who probably were greatly aided
by skis in traversing the gracial ice
and he puts his faith in a great pack OF
Siberian dogs for the supply sledges. He
had the advantage over Captain Scott in
the race for the south pole of nearly
eight months; his base. of supplies was
nearer to the pole by nearly one hundred
miles, and was not scientific expedi-
tion, but one designated to take advan-
tage of all conditions and move as swift
1y as 1t might.
The steamer Fran is the vessel with
which DR.. Fridtiof Nansen made jour
ney of thousands of miles in the arctic
ocean in lS03-96, and it is the ship in
which Amundsen planned to drift on the
arctic ice to the north pole. Amundsen
started in April, 1909, to carry out this
drifting trip in search of the north pole,
but changed his plans and in the follow
ing year proceeded by way of South
America for the antarctic regions. Early
in 1911, Lieutenant Pennell of Captain
Scott's expedition sent word from Stew
arts island that he had come on an
Amundsen ship in the Bay of Whales,
Roos sea, where the Norwegian had made
his winter quarters.