Arctic Tragedy Feared
CANADIAN EXPLORERS MAROONED. RESCUE SHIP NIPPED IN ICE. STEFANSSON ANXIOUS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.1 New York, Sept. 25. Indications of the possibility of another Arctic tragedy came in a. brief wireless from the Siberian coast, received by Mr. V. Stefansson to-day t More than a year ago sOAeral Canadians sailed for Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, for the purpose of claiming it under tho BriWsh flag. The history of the island shows that the flags of the United States and Britain have been planted there several times during the past sixty years. A brief message arrived some time ago announcing the party’s arrival at Wrangel. Then came a call for relief. Stefansson sent tho schooner Teddy Bear to rescue the party, whose vessel appeared to.Ji.ave been lost. The Teddy Bear sailed from Nome, Alaska, a month ago, and the message received te-day, relayed through Nome, reported that Siberian reindeer herders saw the Teddy Bear trapped in the ice. Stefansson expressed great anxiety regarding the fate of the Teddy Bear and her crew. He thought it might bo necessary to make an 800 miles sledge journey next February to rescue both the Teddy Bear’s crew and the Wrangel expedition.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 242, 26 September 1922, Page 5
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