Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-26
ARCTIC EXPLORERS
 BELIEVED TO BE IN
 TOUCH WITH SHORE
ENGAGED IN DARING AND DIES PIRATE ATTEMPT TO FLY TO NORTH POLE IN AIRPLANE; NEITHER KNOWS OTHER IS AFTER MUTUAL GOAL
CBy Review 1,eased wire)

SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 9-The Are tic explorers, Roal Amundsen, noted Norwegian, drifting in his ice locked boat eastward from the Atlantic, and Storker Storkerson, lieutenant of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canadian ex- .plorer, floating westward from the Pacific on an ice pack, are both be- lieved approaching the New Siberian islands. which jut out of the Arctic ocean off the mouth of the Lena riv- CT in Siberia. Authorities credited with knowing the Arctic currents be lieve the two will reach the islands early next year
 No other explorers are now in the Arctic and it is thought very likely that neither Amundsen of Storker- son knows the other has the same goal in mind. They probably will not meet. for Storkerson is expected to arrive ahead of Amundsen and probably will land far west of Amundsen's course.
 Amundsen, the diseoverer of the South Pole and navigator of the diff ficult northwest passage, is on the first lap of a journey to the North Pole. He expects to make the last lap by airplanes. Storkerson is bound back in the general direction of civili- zation after spending several years in the Arctic. Both are seeking new lands and studying the currents and life of the northern ocean.
 When Amundsen reaches the Si- berian islands, the current, it IS be- lieved will turn and carry him north. He is expected to remain with the drift until it lands him on the immov- able ice far up towards the pole There, according to his plans, he will establish base and attempt to fly the rest of the distance to the top of the globe.
 Storkerson, according to his plans. will leave his ice pack when it reaches the Siberian islands. With his five men he will come ashore and make his way back to Alaska. His friends. expect to hear of him landing some time next summer near the Lena However, they say he may change his plans and come ashore before that time.
 Stefansson, when he was in the north last winter, planned to make the trip StOrkersOn is now on., After he completed arrangements. and pur- chased all the necessary supplies and dogs, illness forced him to come out side. When he left he put Storkerson in charge.
 The Canadians think StorkersonS trip is one of the most daring Arctic feats ever undertaken. He is up there camped on the ice and practi- cally living off the ice pack Stefans- son says. Other explorers do their work from their ships. Ships are little less than floating hotels. Storkerson has no ship. If StorkersOn doesn't get hOmesick we should hear from him next year."
 Storkerson and his five men were landed last May on the ice pack about 150 miles northwest of Herschel is- land. Rough estimates show that the ice at times drifts more than ten miles a day. This current, Stefansson thinks, carried StOrkersOn westward until in October he probably was about 200 miles due north rom Wran- gel island. off Siberia and east of the New Siberian islands.
 The Karluk. Stefansson's first boat. which was lost, was carried westward from off Alaska. When it was crushed in the ice. 1t was off Wrangel is land. Stefansson expected to get caught in the same current and go on beyond Wrangel to the Siberian Is- lands.