The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
Three Balloons and Their Pilots Are Still Lost In
 Wi|dS of Canada
RECORDS FOR DISTANCE
 BROKEN BY AER0NAUTS
Render Assistance in Search for Contestants in Great Bal
 loon Race

St. Louis, october 2l,-Rel1et eXpe- ditions to search for the pilots and aids of the three missing balloons. Az urea, Dusseldorf II, and America II which started in the international race here Monday and who apparently have been lost, will be started from To- ronto, Ont, Sunday If no news Is re- ceived from the men before that time This announcement was made tonight by officials of the Aero club of St. Louis.
 "The German balloon, Germania, Cap tain Hugo von Abercron, pilot, and Au- gust Blanckerts, aid. landed at Coocoo- cache, Quebec. 179 miles north of Que bee. Wednesday morning. This Is ap- proximately 1895 miles from St. Louis, and may mean that all worlds records have been broken. It is certain if the reports are true that all worlds rec ords in competition have been eclipsed.'
 The situation in reference to the un- reported balloons assumed a most se- rious aspect tonight. It is believed here that the men have landed somewhere in the wilds of Canada, where they may be the victims of starvation be- fore succor can reach them.
 The Aero club tonight called upon Gen. Fred Allen, chief of the United States signal corps at Washington, D. C., to have the revenue cutters patrol ling the Great Lakes look for wreck age in Lake Huron
 Steamship companies which have ves- sells plying Lake Huron and Georgia Bay have been requested to join fin
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 The Ontario government, through its lieutenant governor, J. M. Gibson, to- nt-~t. a1, l,f would be rendered in the search for the missing men.
 The Hudson Bay company has also replied favorably to the requests sent cut from here today.
 Lieutenant Governor Gibson wired from Toronto as follows:
 Message received. Am consulting with Sir James Whitney, premier. Have telegraphed instructions to officials in northern Ontario to gather information and render all possible aid"
 The Hudson Bay company also respond ed from Montreal as follows:
 Your message received. Have for warded same to all our agents in Lake Nipissing district. through the nearest post at North Bay
 It was announced tonight that a rep resentative of the Aero club would be sent to Toronto to organize the relief expeditions.
 The Germania was at first considered among the missing balloons, despite the fact that 1t has been reported from Vile Marie, Pontiac county, Quebec, and other points. It was so reported Wednesday from Pogamasin. Ontario, but 1t after ward developed that Alfred Leblanc balloon, Isle de France, was meant in the dispatches.
 All of the balloons should have been down and reported by Wednesday night according to Aero club officials, and the fact that more than a hundred hours have elapsed since the start of the race and neither Pilots Messner. Gericke, Hawley or Abercron, or their aides, have report ed to the Aero Club of America has given rise to great apprehension for theiI safety.
 It was pointed out that the greatest danger would be in case of balloon hay ing descended in Georgia bay.
 This stretch of water contains more than 30,000 islands of all sizes, where the aeronauts might perish before relief could arrive.