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Show RELIEF EXPEDITION ALL BEING SENT OUT ST. LOUIS. Oct. 21 Relief expeditions expedi-tions to search for the pll"ts and aides of the four missing balloons, Azurea, Dusscldorf II., Cermania and America II., which Etarted in tho ln-ternatlonl ln-ternatlonl race here Monday, will be started from Toronto Sunday, if no news is received from the aeronauts before that time. This was announced tonight by officials of the Aero club of St. Louis Landed in the Canadian Wilds. The situation in reference to the unreported balloons assumed a most serious aspect tonight. It Is believed hero that the men have landed somewhere some-where In the wild.? of Canada, whero they may bo the victims of starvation before succor can rench them. The Aero club tonight called upon I Ueneral James Allen, chief of Hie United Slate? Signal Corps at Washington. Wash-ington. D. C. lo have the revenue cutters cut-ters patrolling the jrreat lakes knk for wreckage In Lake Huron. Steamship Steam-ship companies which have vessels plying Lake Huron and Georgian Hay. have been requested to join In the search. Ontario Government to Assist. The Ontario government, thiouch Its lieutenant governor, J. M. Gibson, tonight to-night notified the club that it would assist In the search for the missing men The Hudson Tiny company also has replied favorably to a request for j assistance sent from here today. I It was announced tonight that a rp-resentahe rp-resentahe of the Aero club would be snt to Toronto to organize the relief re-lief expeditions. The Cermania Is considered among the missing bal loons, despite the fact that It hid been reported from ViMe . Marie, Pontiae county, Quebec, and other points. It was so reported Wednesday from Po-gamaslug Po-gamaslug Ontario, but it aftciward? developed that Alfred LePranc's balloon bal-loon Ile do France was meant In the dispatches. Should Have Reported Wednesday. All the balloons should have been down and reported by Wednesday night, according to the Aero club officials offi-cials and the tact that more than a hundred hours have elapsed since the start of the race and neither pilots Messner, Geilcke. Hawley or Aber-cron Aber-cron or their aides have reported, has given rise to grave apprehension for their safety. It was pointed out that the greatest danger Is anticipated in the case of a balloon hating descended In Gi'nr-iclan Gi'nr-iclan Bay. This stretch of water contains con-tains more thnn thirty thousand islands is-lands of all flzes, whore th.- aeronauts aero-nauts mlvhl perish before relief could arrive. |