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RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS ALL EQUIPMENT SAVED ICE-BREAKERS* LONG TASK By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received February 20, 7 p.m.) MOSCOW. Feb. 19 The Russian scientists have been rescued and taken on board the ice-breakers Taimyr and Murman. Thousands of people, overjoyed, thronged the squares of the city to listen to the broadcast of news of the rescue. The two vessels, after having spent weeks in fighting storms and the pack-ice, approached within a mile of M. Papanin's camp and dispatched a party carrying Soviet flags over the ice hummocks to the camp.
The scientists, cheering, advanced to meet them, bearing flags and a portrait of M. Stalin. The two parties exchanged congratulations, and tlien began to break-up camp, and carry the scientists' equipment and records of the 258 days spent on the ice-floe on board the ships. This was completed in 90 minutes. It is officially announced that the North Pole meteorological station has been closed down. The Soviet Government has sent the following wireless message to the four scientists:—"Congratulations on the successful conclusion of your task. The whole country is proud of your heroic work." A Soviet flag has been left flying on the ice-floe.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22968, 21 February 1938, Page 11
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