RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS
GREENLAND COAST IN VIEW RESCUERS NOT FAR AWAY MOSCOW, Feb. 9 The wireless station at Tromsoe, a small fishing village in the north of Norway, has received a message frcjm the Russian scientists, who are adrift) on an ice-floe, disclosing that a storm damaged their tent, which they have repaired.
They are now in clear view of the Greenland coast. M. Pppanin, the leader of the party, reported:— "Everything satisfactory. Our position is between Jan Mayen Island and the Greenland coast."
The captain of the ice-breaker Taimyr has sent a wireless message that his ship is proceeding through broken ice with the aid of searchlights. Her positron is not far east of the scientists' ice-floe.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22960, 11 February 1938, Page 11
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