ON POLAR ICE FLOE
RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS
PLANS FOR THEIR REMOVAL
MOSCOW, January 11,
Professor Otto Schmitt announces that the ice-breaker Yrmak, equipped with lour aeroplanes, will attempt to take off the party of Russian scientists from the polar floe when it is drifting past southern Greenland in A^>ril.
Meanwhile, in case an emergency rescue is essential, the ice-breaker Murmanetz will start as soon as possible to observe ice movements and establish communication with the scientists.
The ice-breaker Tamir is also standing by, with, two aeroplanes ready to land on the ice floe and remove the scientists and their instruments. Two further aeroplanes are ready for further emergencies.
A Soviet scheme for the exploration and utilisation of the Arctic territories was carried forward last year by the establishment of a research station on an icefloe within 12 miles of the North Pole. One of-the chief objects of the expedition was meteorological research in connection with the proposed air route between the^Soviet Union and the United States.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 9, 12 January 1938, Page 9
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