CHARGE AGAINST RUSSIAN.
SEARCH FOR AVIATORS. MOSCOW, Feb. 17. M. Vostnisinsky, chief wireless operator at Tikhaya Bay. will be charged at the Municipal Court on February 25 with counter-revolutionary activity, including sabotage, in connection with the search for the ilier Levaneveki in 1937.
An attempted Soviet trans-polar flight from Moscow to Alaska, was begun when the Russian pilot Levanevski with five companions, left on August 12, 1937, in a four-engined amphibian machine. The ’plane was due to arrive at Fairbanks (Alaska) on August 14, the date on which messages from the ’plane were last received, but there has since been no word of it. Several rescue expeditions, one led by Sir Hubert Wilkins, tried unsuccessfully Lo find the aviators.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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