LOST IN SIBERIA

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 11

LOST IN SIBERIA

EIELSON AND BORLAND

SEARCH EXPEDITION

(EeceiveS 23rd December, 8 a.m.) VANCOUVER, 22nd December. Six Canadian airmen sailed to-day for Alaska on an extraordinary expedition, hoping to rescue the American flyers, Eielson and Borland, who have been missing for several weeks. Ten days will elapse before tho Canadian airmen are on the ground with their three Fairehild 'planes. They will face midwinter conditions, with temperatures often forty or fifty below zero, in an unparalleled attempt to operate in the remotest districts of Siberia bordering on Behrrng Straits. Eielson flew thi best 'plane in Alaska on his final trip, and local aviators flying recently from Nome in attempts at rescue have been handicapped by inferior machines.

Nome (Alasko) reported on 4th December that the pilot Eielson and his mechanic Borland, had been lost for a fortnight. All efforts to locate them failed. Pilot Dorbandt and Eielson recently made two trips to the steamer Nanuk, which is ice-bound off the North Cape, Siberia, and brought to Nome furs worth a fortune. Eielson became lost on the third trip, and there are serious fears that he has been starved or frozen to death, though there is always the possibility of the intrepid ■Northerner hibernating with the Eskimos somewhere during the remainder of the winter