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so weakened with hunger when they started that they "did not have
one chance in a thousand" of reaching Siberia. * The He further makes the implication is
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* I was allowed to remove this from the cable by the Daily News
and Manchester Guardian, but it was generally published outside of
Great Britain.
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clear that the journey to Siberia had been a sudden resolve when
food gave out. All this is without support from the documents Knight's diary
(on which Mr. Noice alleged that he based his narrative), and it
is in fact definitely contradicted by Knight's the diary, which So Mr. Noice
must have invented it. The fact was, as the diary plainly tells,
that the journey had been planned months\before, and that it was
planned for purposes entirely other than those alleged by Mr. Noice. Neither is
there any evidence that the men or dogs were weak from hunger.

These instances, few out of many, will suffice to show
the manner in which the Harold Noice press story differed from the
diary on which it is alleged to be based, and therefore from the
facts as we know them and as he either did know or could have known
them. They also show in part why the press story was so very
painful to the relatives and intimate friends of the dead.