Storm Destroys Aerodrome
PLANS FOR SOVIET RESCUE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Tuesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, FcFb. 15. The Riga correspondent of The Times - says that the Taimir reports, that a storm destroyed all the preparations for an aerodrome on the ice floe from which the ship’s planes hoped to take off to rescue the drifting scientists. The storm set tho ice in motion agaiu. Tho Taimir hopes to use tho fissures to force a passage near the scientists who are still 25 miles away. The Copenhagen correspondent of The Times says, although it is still hoped tho Taimir will succeed, the Soviet Government has accepted the Greenland Board’s offer to send auxiliary expeditions with sledges from. Scoresby Sound to assist in the rcscuo plans.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 39, 16 February 1938, Page 4
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