The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-25
NAVAL OFFICER RETURNS TO COPENHAGEN AFTER }
 YEARS IN FROZEN NORTH

Washington, Aug. 23.-After having tspent three perilous years in the Arc tic, Ensign FTtzrugh Green, the young American naval officer who represent ed this Government on the Crock CT Land" Arctic expedition, notified the Navy Department yesterday of his safe arrival at Copenhagen.
 How many members of the party have reached safety with him is not yet known. The American Legation at Copenhagen will take immediate steps to assist Green and provide such other means as practicable for others of the expedition.
 The so-called ''Crocker Land' which Peary believed he had discovered is not referred to as existing in Ensign Greens report As this officer went in the capacity of an official Govern ment representative to survey this land and report whether 1t actually could be found, his observations are taken as finally disposing of Peary's supposi- ton.
 Peary believed he saw the land from high attitudes in northeast Greenland, and it was on the strength of this be- lief that the Crocker expedition was formed in June, 1913.
 The expedition was sent out under the joint auspices of the American Museum of Natural History, the Amer lean Geographical Society and the Un1- versity of Illinois. Before it left New i York on the steamship Diana, fitted out for the purpose. Ensign Green, who is from Missouri and only 2S years old, was assigned to represent the Government, together with Jerome Lee Allen, a young electrician of the Navy Department, 26 years old, from Atlanta, Ga
 Wouldn't Give Up Search.
 1t develops that Green declined to give up the search for the elusive ~Crocker Land'' even when almost in surmountable difficulties broke up the party and threatened it with starva- tion. He felt that he was under or ders to find 1t if possible, and kept up the perilous sledge Journeys even under most unfavorable conditions. During 1918 and the following year no word whatever came from the party and there was growing concern here and a demand for relief expe- dition. The well known explorer Dr. Hovey was in charge of the first att tempt to relieve the expedition, which was made in 1915-
 His relief ship, the George B. Cfuett, got as far as North Star Bay 1n Sep tember, but encountered unusually se-' were ice conditions and this, together with a broken engine. necessitated his ; leaving the vessel and attempting to proceed further north on a motor launch placed at his. disposal by Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer.
 He got as far as Etah, where he found the expedition in dire want of food and sunering many hardships. Both Green and Allen got in touch with Dr. Hovey, and together they started back toward the vessel at North Star Bay. Ice had closed in on the chip at Parker Snow Bay and she was of no further use to the relief party. She was abandoned when it was seen that the ice would crush her, and Dr. Hovey,. together with Green and Allen, faced starvation, as provisions by this time bad run out In the quest for food the party sepa- rated
 PHHous Sledgo Journey.
 Ensign Green, and Allen next start ed . perilous aledge journey across Melville Bay with the object of reach ing southern Danish settlements. Phys ical conditions caused Dr. Hovey to young American naval men set out in sledges for Egedesminde. in southern Greenland.
 By this time it was evident that only quick action could bring relief either to the main part of the expedition or the first relief party which had gone to succor it. The "Crocker Land'' committee had the steamer Denmark in southern Greenland to meet the ex- pected emergency. The plan earlier this year was for this relief steamer to make for Etah and other northern ports in the hope of picking up mem bers of the expedition and landing them either at St. Johns, Newfound- land, or Sydney, Cape Breton
 When word reached the Navy De- partment yesterday that Green had re- ported his safe arrival at Copenhagen the general belief was expressed that Donald B. MacMi1lap, the explorer, and others will befound with him, or that he will be able to supply the necessary information for their rescue
 Coincident with the indications that Ensign Green failed to find any trace of "Crocker Land'' it was learned that this land will no longer figure on the charts of the Photographic Office. In fact, recent charts have omitted it since Representative Helgesen of North Dakota. who is greatly interest ed in the expedition, insisted the Gov ernment should wait until confirmation came of Peary's discovery
 "Crocker Land is a dream" said Mir. Helgesen last night"
 There is every indication that Ensign Greens report will stir up the old Peary-Cook controversy in Congress.
 Peary Reported Discovery.
 Admiral Peary reported his discov- cry of a new continent upon his return | from the Arctic regions in 1906. He said he had seen a field of mountains through his glasses from Cape Thom- as Hubbard, the northern limit of Axel Hefburg Land. In May, 1910, he wrote in the American Museum Jour- nal with faith unshaken:
 "The exploration of Crocker Land easily takes first rank among prob lems demanding exploration, now that the pole has been reached and the in- sularity of Greenland has been deter mined. And further than this, should this land, the distant mountain peaks of which I was fortunate enough to