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ity with which the transatlantic but pilots have been able to keep to
their schedules has been largely due to able wireless work at the terminal ports and to help from mids Athutic. For such a service
transpolar route cannot at pre
hope, and Levanevsky's message that he was having trouble with reception was quite as ominous as that announcing the failure of one of his four en- gines. That inculty too may. sbe met, perhaps by such an ex- tension of beam direction that a plane will not lose steering gui Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1937- dance from Russia before pick-
SEARCH FOR ARCTIC
FLIERS
ing it up from the United States. But such an advance has still to come, and until it does or some- thing as efficient is devised trans- polar flying must continue to be
Intensification of effort in the hazardous. search for the Soviet airmen lost
in the vast wastes of the Far
North indicates-first, that hope An Export "Record" has for their safety not yet been
The Board of Trade returns, abandoned and, secondly, that
published last week, show that the margin of safety is narrow-Britain's exports in August, valu- ing sharply. There is apparently ed at £42,462,205, were higher no reason yet to despair of their than for any August during the ultimate safety: The scale on past seven years. Equally, total exports (including re-exports) which these flights has been or-
are higher than any month Taken to- ganised has included equipping since August 1930. them as for a polar expedition gether with the unemployment Levanevsky and his six-com-position, the railway receipts, panions had with them lifebelts. and other economic indices, this a collapsible boat, a tent, sleep-affords gratifying proof that re- covery is by no means slacken- ing-bags, axes, and rations en- ing Nevertheless, account must ough for forty-five days. If they be taken of the rise in prices; came down without mishap their during the past twelve months, rescue is a question of finding for instance, the world prices of them before their food supplies primary products have risen by over 20 per cent. Indeed, reckon- fail, and to this end are being ing in terms of volume and not bent the resources of a country of values, the export figure that has led the world in aerial stands only at about 70 per cent ambulance work in the polar re-of the years 1927-300 gions. All who remember the it is as well to remember
1929 was certainly not a skill and resource with which the markably prosperous year members of the Chelyuskin ex-compared with pre-war years. pedition were rescued from a We must remember, too, that drifting ice-floe by Soviet air-much of British prosperity
directly and indirectly from men, Levanevsky himself pro-
rearmament as increased minent among them, will have ports of iron ore and some idea of the assistance on witness. While war, or
affords a temp which the stranded flyers are de-of war, pending. Meanwhile in Moscow Stumlus in one direction it shuts down markets in the Far East the possibilities of
and the Mediterranean, permanently closed econ of the Fascist States
transpolar service conti discussed, nd in an which he gave to the
Colonel
ter Guardian one of the three the first
from Moscow
California, sp
regular
at it will be long before
Ise
ects
the
urn to the trade distribution even of 1929. Finally, the eyes adelor statesmen must not be dazzled rts and of em- eaking flight by figures of
at they forget
the Pole to ployment
of it as a cer- about retail prices and the cost of living So far wages may tainty within the next two years. have kept up with prices, but Many will think him optimistic, there are signs that prices are
But the effort will go on.-
Beside this adventure, tling even in these days
about to overtake wages in the vicious race which, can, în de- fault of statesmanship, end only when in another depression.
star-