POLAR AIR SERVICE
MOSCOW TO ’FRISCO Received March 23. 11.20 p.m. LONDON. March 23. The Exchange’s Moscow correspondent says that five Soviet ’planes are reported to have taken off secretly from Moscow for the North Pole, carrying ten scientists who will drop in parachutes to the icefields in the neighbourhood of the Pole, with the object of establishing a permanent landing place for a Moscow-San Francisco air route. They carry provisions for a year’s stav.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 7
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75POLAR AIR SERVICE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 7
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