While aviators tune up their. aeroplanes in readiness to proceed with renewed vigour on hunts which have suddenly increased in. scope and urgency, the greatest activity prevails here and there is much anxiety.
'As a result of the disappearance a month ago of Carl Ben. Eielson, best-known and most experienced of all the fliers of the Arctic' regions, three other individuals or expeditions are now lost and" Eielson himself has not been found: Reid, one of the aeroplane searchers,' for Eielson, became separated from other fliers and has not been found, Dog teams' from the Russian ship Stavropot are seeking two dog team ex~' Feditions from the ice-bound fur ship Nanuk, Elelson disappeared while handle 1927 he. and Sir Hubert Wilkins spent a fortnight in walking over pack ice to safety near Point Barrow, after a forced landing. It is now feared that he may have collided with a mountain in fog,—United Press,
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