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Show ANXIETY IS FELT : ARCTIC EXPLORERS Seattle. Wash.. No 18. While some anxiety has ben felt of late' for .the safety of Vllhjaimur Stefans-I son and the Canadian Arctic exploT tion expedition which he led into the irozen north some months ago. It was said here toda that uotbing had been heard recently which Indicated disaster disas-ter to the party The three ships carrying the navigators navi-gators and scientists, the whalers Kar-luk Kar-luk and Belvedere, and the steam schooner Mary Sachs were la3t reported re-ported by Captain John Backland, I I whose otx n vessel was lost in the l at Point Barrow m August. flai? , land said Stefansson boats had S : a lead In the Ice east of Point ro . and steamed away t0 the LrfL ,st before he started for sX" : Nothing has been seen or heard J them sine they dropped from the Mew of the lookou' station at thl point dl ine I The supposition here among thois tamiliar with Stefansson's pn ?! ' tha' his ships were frozen n if I possible even that thev have bW crushed as the;, were not built to resist the ice pressure; but Stefan-son Stefan-son was prepared to take to the ir In that event and there is no reason to feel anxiety for him M friends say. than there was month! ago , i The fourth St.-fanaaon ship. : Alaska Is frozen in near shore mil of Point Barrow. " f |