PATE OF POLICE.
IN BRITISH NORTH-AMERICA. BODIES OF FOUR OF A MISSING PARTY DISCOVERED. DEATH FROM STARVATION. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 19, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, 18th April. Dawson City reports the recovery of •the bodies of four of the North- West mounted police patrol, about whose safety fears were entertained. The men had died of starvation on the baiiks of the Peel River. They had jten their dogs after the food supplies had been exhausted. The relief party buried the victimß at Fort Macpherson, on the right bank of ithe Peel Rrver. [The police party ltft Herschel Island, within the Arctic Circle, in December Jast, and had not since been heard of.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 91, 19 April 1911, Page 7
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116PATE OF POLICE. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 91, 19 April 1911, Page 7
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