LOST AND FOUND
AA f ERIOAN AVIATORS.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 12.25. p.m. VANCOUVER, November 5
After being missing for eight weeks, McAlpine and the seven aeroplane explorers are safe at Cambridge Bay, two hundred miles inside the Arctic circle. Leaving Baker Dike on Bth •September for Bathurst, they lost their way in a snow storm, striking Cambridge. They were unable to use their wireless until to-day.
WINNIPEG. Nov. 5
Since Sentemoer 16th. all America has been thrilled hv the tale of reckless flights of daring aviators, who ventured into the stark silence of the bleak and lonely north, in the farflung search for Colonel C. A. McAlpine and party of seven mining explorers,’ who were lost with two planes in the Arctic, without finding trace of the missing men.
To-day the Department of Marine Fisheries received a radio flash from: Fort Churchill 'that and party had been, found alive and well at Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island. Eskimos are believed to have located the men.
At one time 19 ’planes were engaged in a search covering 40.000 miles.
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