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Show ARCTIC EXPLORERS BEUEVEDJH1SSIHG STEFFANSON URGES THAT ADVICE AD-VICE BE SOUGHT BEFORE EXPEDITION EX-PEDITION IS UNDERTAKEN Doubts Regarding 'Possibility That I Explorers Crawford, Galle, and Maurer are Alive. Authorities Think Party FaMed. London, Grave doubts regarding i the possibility that the Artie explor-! explor-! ers, Crawford. Galle and Maurer are alive, after their desperate attempt i to cross the ice floats heween W'rnn-I W'rnn-I gel island and Sihera, exist among authorities on Artie conditions. 1 Vilhjalmur Stetfanson, the noted , Artie explorer, stated Thursday that the whole matter of the search for Crawford and his companions should be left for decision by the men now in northern Siberia, who are best able to judge the chances human beings be-ings would have had in surviving the I ordeal the missing explorers under- took. "I especially urge those who con-j con-j template a relief expedition," said Steffanson, "to secure the advice of Arnaut Castol and Harold Noice, because be-cause they are on the ground and having traveled through the territory would be able to direct such efforts along the most practical lines." "Castel explored the Kolyma river district only last winter. Therefore he should be able to give a definite opinion as to wdiether Crawford won through tg the coast." Other authorities declare their believe be-lieve that the party must have failed. fail-ed. Otherwise they say, Siberian traders would have heard long ago some inkling as to their whereabouts, even though they were quartered at a most isolated point. |