LOST IN ARCTIC
SEVEN RUSSIAN FLIERS SEARCH STILL FRUITLESS NEW YORK, August 25 A message from Moscow states that three Russian airmen, Alexeff, Vodopianoff and Molok/jff, who are stationed at the North Pole air base,' left to-day in three machines to search for their colleague Levanevsky and his six companions who were lost between the Pole and Canada on an attempted nonstop flight from Moscow to Alaska. Sir Hubert Wilkins has started on a second flight over the Arctic to search for the missing men. Tho weather is hazy and rain is threatening. Mr. James Mattern landed at Fairbanks, Alaska, after a flight during which he failed to locate tho fliers. Mr. Mattern said he was convinced that he had done all that was possible to find the Russians. He was withdrawing from the search and returning to California in a few days. He added that Sir Hubert Wilkins might have better success, but only if the weather cleared.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22818, 27 August 1937, Page 11
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