ESKIMO POPULATION FALLS
WHITE MAN'S DISEASES THE CAUSE Received Wednesdav, 7.55 p.m. OTTAWA, May 7. Major Frank Riddell, who took part in the operation "INhiskox" declareu that the Eskiino population had decreased as much as 50 per cent. in the past quarter of a century as the result of diseases brought in by the white nian 's invasion. IMajor Riddell said that at the present rate t'he Eskimos would soon die out coiupletely. When that luippens, the world would haA*e lost oue of its greatest racos of the Far North. Eskimos lived far more democratically than whites ever dreamed of. j -Operation "Muskox" ended when lU I snoAvmobiles and 50 officers and men : completed in 82 davs their 3100-mile exI pedition through Canada 's Northwest ! to test the macliines under extreme eold. The expedition completed the last 107 miles by (rain to save tlie snowniobiles from perinaneiit damage when the gravel and dust 011 the Alaska Higlr' wav interfered with the meehan isms. The expedition obtained valuable meteorological and military data.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 May 1946, Page 5
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171ESKIMO POPULATION FALLS Chronicle (Levin), 9 May 1946, Page 5
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