AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

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WILKIES RETURNS. VANCOOUVEB, unc G. A message from Fairbanks states the quartet, headed by Wilkins, returned oh Saturday evening from Point Barrow in tho Detroiter, which Hew there on May Bth, for the flight over the Arctic wastes. The men’s return is taken to liiipn the abandonment of tho plan to explore tho region this year. It is reported they are glad to bo back at Fairbanks, as they were tired of the frozen country along the Arctic coast, which hits been shrouded in fog without u break since the beginning of Alay. ■

ARCTIC TRAGEDY. VANCOUVER, June G.

Reports from Nomet, Alaska, state that three hundred natives at Indian Point, Siberia, died of starvation last winter. The survivors ate their coinl'l.ides. Officers of the motor ship trade reported the .tragedy on arrival from the Siberian Coast.

The famine is said to be Ibc result of the Soviet’s action in taking away tho natives’ firearms because the authorities feared an uprising. A Russian school teacher crossed on a. frozen waste from the island, where the natives were quartered, to the ship to obtain medicine for Russian officials who were ill. .

SERIES OF FIRES

SAN FRANCISCO, June 0.

. A series of fires, which Mayor Rolph describes iis the worst in San Francisco’s history since the gieat fire of 1906, swept a largo area last, evening.