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THE PAS, Man, xxx Aug. 2.- Under the leadership of Alfred Trem-
blay, Arctic explorer an ecplosion expedition which will carry on investigations
in Baffin land and at the magnetic pole is now in The Pas enroute
north. The other members of the party are Arthur Berbeau and C. Talbot.
The expedition is a private one and marine, land, general and geologi-
cal surveys will be carried out, thereby adding to the scanty fund
of knowledge at present possessed of the great Arctic regions.

Mr Tremblay's party will be the first in history to attempt
the journey which they are undertaking by canoe and on foot.
The party has four specially built freighting canoes and eight
thousand pounds of freight. Their outfit includes all the latest
instruments all of which are duplicated in case of accident or loss
of any of the baggage.

Tremblay was a member of Captain Bernier's expedition of 1910-
13, on his last expedition into the Arctic regions, Mr. Tremblay
succeeded where several well equipped expeditions had failed in
reaching Igloelake and Fury and Hecle Strait for the first time
since the memorable visit in 1822-23 of Sir E. W. Parry. With
barely any equipment, save his rifle and revolver, and no provisions
except the game he could shoot, Mr. Tremblay covered four thousand
miles on foot in the depth of an arctic winter and afterward with
the assistance of A. B. Reader, a native of New Zealand, mapped and
re-mapped three thousand miles of coast line. He was the first white
man to cross land from the head of Admiralty Sound to Fury and Hecla
strait and to make the long and dangerous crossing from Murray Maxwell
Bay, across Cockburn Land to Milne Inlet.

The explorer was only 19 years of age when he made his first
trip into the Arctic and is now thirty one years of age. He is a native
of Quebec. The present trip will occupy two years.

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PARIS, Aug. 2.- The British note...in a.p.