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Show STEFANSSEN IS ASKING FOR HELP Ottawa Unt., Feb B. With the object ob-ject of having the Canadian guvern-meat guvern-meat assist bini in a three-year ex- i pedltion through the "last unknown territory" to the north of Canada. Vilhjalmar Stefanssoa, discoverer of the "White Eskimos" of Coronation bay, is In Ottawa to see members of the cabinet The explorer, as a Canadian, wishes to go under the Aegis 01 the dominion government, so that the right of Canada to whatever what-ever land he may discover will be unquestioned ( Stefan8son has made his official report to the geological snrvej and urged the government to protect the Eskimos from the Iroublesome re- isulfs of partial civilization, including includ-ing the spread of disease He asked also that something be done to save I the great caribou herds of the bar- I ren lands |