GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2462, 15 May 1915, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

ARCTIC EXPLORATION

SEARCH FOR STEFANSSON

l.ondon, May 12. Toronto reports state that the search for Dr. Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, was fruitless. . [Dr. Stcfansson's expedition, which set out in 1913, was an ill-fated one. First of all, his exploring ship, the Karluk, was iammod in the ice and had to bo repaired. Barely three months later it was reported that tlie explorer has readied his winter quarters on Hcrscholi Island, after a trying experience with the ice off Northern Alaska, lhen. came a rumour that the Belvedere, a supply ship, has been lost, and that the supply schooner Mary Sachs had been caught in tho ice. The Karluk then drifted to the north-west of Behring Strait, was crushed in the ice, and sank on January 11 of last year. Iho whole party got off safely, and set oit in three divisions for Wrangol Island, thirty-eight miles distant., Here a part of the expedition arrived about a month later. After a failure by a relief party under Captain Bartletfc to reach H rangel Island, another party was successful. three survivors being, taken on. An unsuccessful attempt was then madn to reach Herald .Isldnd, to find, if it might be, any trace of the lost members of the expeditiou. It was Stefansson who. in the course of five years travel in the Arctic discovered a race of blonde Eskimos. The expedition was financed by the Canadian Government, and its object was to verify the existence of a supposed Arctic land half a million square miles in extent.]