ICEFIELD BREAKING UP
PLIGHT OF SCIENTISTS
RESCUE EFFORT PLANNED
(Reed. Feb. 4, noon.) MOSCOW, Feb. 3.
The position of the Russian polar scientists who are on an ice floe which has rapidly drifted many hundreds of miles from the Pole towards Greenland, has become considerably worse. The leader, M. Ivan Papanin, has sena a wireless message stating that the icefield is breaking up into slabs 70yds in length, the fissures ranging from one to five yards in width.
“We are at present living in a portable silk tent on a floe 55yds long and 36yds wide," states M. Papanin. “All the apparatus, scientific instruments and records, and the aerial, are on another floe.”
Rescue operations have been ordered by the authorities. The ships Murmanets and Maimyr, the latter an ice-breaker, are racing to the rescue of the scientists. The ice-floe is drifting somewhere north-east of Greenland. Two other vessels will leave shortly with planes aboard.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19550, 4 February 1938, Page 5
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