RUSSIAN POLAR SCIENTISTS
BREAKING ICEFIELDS CAUSE ANXIETY MOSCOW, February 3. The position of the Russian Polar scientists has become considerably worse. ,„, _ The leader of the party CM. Papanin) sent a wireless message stating: "The ice-field is breaking up into Slabs 70 yards in length with fissures ranging from one to five yards in width. We are at present living m a portable silk tent on a floe oa yards long and 35 yards wide. "All the apparatus, scientific instruments, and records have beea saved, together with three months' supplies. We have installed a second wireless mast and an aerial on another floe." . 4 - » u-,^ The rescue of the scientists has been ordered by the authorities.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22318, 4 February 1938, Page 13
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