ARCTIC AIR MAIL
RUSSIAN ENTERPRISE • \ Independent Cable Sorvico MOSCOW, Dec. 12 A regular air mail service has been established by the Soviet in the Arctic and Eastern Siberia. Airmen will drop letters and newspapers to reindeer herdsmep and to 56 radio stations in the far north. Pilots are ' also experimenting with a parachute delivery of parcels. Sixty-mile-an-hour propeller-driven aero-sleds supplement the air mail for remote districts north of Habarovsk, Kamchatka and along Arctic rivers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23220, 14 December 1938, Page 15
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