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FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1937,
BRITAIN'S PEACE
com-
NEW LANDMARK IN
AIR
FIRMLY believe in the future of transpolar air traffic. A few months ago I myself flew over part of that network of Arctic airlines which have now been extended as far as the North Pole.
me
HISTORY
BSENCE of precipita-
tion is one of the climatic characteristics of the Polar regions. Fog is really the worst enemy of the Arctic pilot. forcel We had to make five landings in one night on account of it.
SAN FRANCISCO
ΤΟ ΚΥΝ
of
By H. P. Smolka
Author of "Forty Thousand Against
the Arctic," has flown with Soviet airmen over the Arctic wastes and knows what lies behind their latest
achievement
FOR the next twelve direct planes back towards us. months the party on They can bring us regular food. the Pole will study the changes supplies, new instruments and of weather, temperatures, wind even additional workers to re- strengths and directions, the lieve those among my party who drift of the ice, depths of the may have to go back to Russia sea and magnetologien condi. for health or other reasons. If tions. They will send out their the drift takes us too far away, reports by wireless four times a we can pack up, fly back and choose a new ice-foe nearer the day.
Pole.
The immediate benefit to the whole world will be much more
"An important part of our
reliable weather-forecasts for all work will be devoted to the study of magnetological conditions.. parts of the Northern Hemis-
No compass is reliable in the phere.
neighbourhood of the North Pole. Winds, atmospheric pressure. We must devise some other and temperatures are condition- means besides shots at the sun ed by the flow of air between the and radio beams for the purpose Pole and the Equator. Every of air-navigation in these change of weather on the Pole gions." determines in one way or an- other whether we shall need umbrellas and mackintoshes in London, a fur, tweeds, or a simple spring coat in Berlin or Paris.
re-
Vodopyanov and Shovelyov
a
fairly early attempt to fly from were very optimistic about
Moscow to San Francisco once the station on the Pole is in operation.
"I could refuel on Rudolf
Papanin and his comrades will also make it far easier for shipa Island before starting on the in Arctic waters to find their way longest hop of the journey," through the drifting ice-floes.
Vodopyanov said. "'Franz The new sea route to Siberia Joseph's Land can be reached by will become safer and more pro- boat during several months in the summer, thanks to the in- fitable.
fluence of the Gulf Stream.
easy
"Of course, our own work will
"Petrol, food and spare-parts- not be too
up there," "The Pole is can be brought there in suflicient Papanin told me. not terra firma, but ice floating quantities each year to make it a first-class air base. From on the ocean. We may drift for miles and miles towards America there to the other side of the mouth of the Athabaska River it or Siberia.
is only a distance of 3,000 miles. "But as long as our wireless is Chekalov's plane, the ANT 25, intact, we shall always be able to has a radius of 7,000 miles, more
FORMULA Reluctantly, but with a view
But Vodopyanov, who has to securing full co-operation
more than 3,000 flying hours in between the Powers for the
the Arctic to his credit, assured non-interven- preservation of
The great scheme to establish me that it rarely lasts for long tion, the British Government a station on the Pole was then periods.
With the vast network has conceder, in a modified just in preparation. I met Pro- form, the German and Italian fessor Schmidt, who is at the radio stations which the Rus- proposal for the granting of head of Russia's Polar organisa- sians have put up along the to coasts and on the islands of the belligerent rights to both sides tion. He introduced in the Spanish civil war. Coupled Papanin, who will be the chief Arctic Ocean, safe passages are with this concession is a require of "Radio North Pole" for the assured, even when lying blind.
Up to now the world's further- ment that the matter of the next twelve months.
most Polar station was on Rudolf withdrawal of foreign
I also talked to Vodopyanov, Island, 550 miles from the Pole. batants be seriously tackled.the airman who took the party On the other side of the globe, This latter issue has been side-there last week and who is the on the coast of Canada and the United States, the outpost near- stepped for all too long. Britain first pilot ever to have made a
est to the Pole is more than 1,000 has consistently maintained that landing on top of the world.
miles away from it. non-intervention cannot be a
MARK IVANOVITCH What was wanted to complete reality until all foreign volun-
SHEVELYOV, the the system was the establish- teers have been withdrawn.
commander of Russia's fleet of ment of a station in the centre of the Arctic. This has now First reactions from Berlin and
125 Arctic planes, was my com- been done. Rome appear to be a disinclina-
panion on a flight of three thou- tion to agree to the granting of
sund miles. We visited the dif- belligerent rights being made
ferent Siberian air bases on this conditional on the withdrawal of!
trans-Arctic route from Europe volunteers, it being argued that
and Asin to America. Shevelyov it would be difficult to ensure
is now at Rudolf Island. withdrawal from the Loyalist side. The point would seem to be conveniently overlooked in this connection that the British plan includes the despatch of commissions to both sides in the the purpose of civil war for supervising the withdrawal of foreigners. Obviously such com- missions would be international in character. and there would therefore be little ground for fearing that only the Insurgent i armies would be subjected to the withdrawal measures. The very is rejected, the whole machinery Thesitance of Germany and Italy of non-intervention may break man like me has to pay, and the likes to vote for the other; and both
the withdrawal down, with dire consequences to proposal raises the suspicion Europe as a whole. Viewing the that these two nations are not matter dispassionately, the occurs that Britain prepared to co-operate to such thought
to
agree
to
I never felt that flying in the Arctic was more dangerous than in more temperate regions.
Ir
MORE IRISH HUMOUR
to
than double the non-stop dis- tance required for a transpolar flight.
"It is very much shorter to fly across the Pole and the Arctic Ocean in getting from London to Tokyo, from New York Shanghai, or from Moscow to a return ticket, and I'm not coming San Francisco, than to choose
Ireland has been termed you done to him?" "Sure, I've taken the distressful country, it hos
the back." nevertheless greatly added mirth of the world. There is a Irish humour is not trunkeness, # downrightness about logic, but who wants logic in hun- Irish humour that is very engaging. bur. "I tell you, Fal, it's the ould friends that are the best, and I can
on the nod.
"Now, then," enquired the woman, "how does it happen that an old wo-
of you rides without a ticket?"
"Oh." said one of them, "we're
travelling on our good looks."
"Faith, then, came the quick retort,
strong in
to
line round the waist of the globe.
THE trips would be re- Ice-formation on the wings is
duced from fourteen only to be feared in spring and And it is usually genial, as warm as autumn, when the temperature the sunshine and as welcome as the prove it." "How will you do that, to two or three days. Of course
spring
Mike?" "Where-I ask ye as mon to it will be a little while before a new we can start a regular passenger is round freezing-point and mois- Who
can help chuckling with man-where will ye find ture in the atmosphere, sprayed satisfaction at the old Irishwoman friend that has stood by ye as long service. We shall have to build first. In the smart as the ould ones?" In an election strato-planes two
State Senator in the United stratosphere the weather is sta- over the plane by the action of who put to confusion the propellor, is likely to freeze. youths. They were travelling in the for a
same railway compartment, and States, the voting was very close, tionary, no clouds ever prevent the and an Irish citizen was questioning us from seeing the sun or the In winter-time the air in com- when a ticket-inspector came,
a friend about the result. "How is stars, and no head-winds brake young men for some good reason pletely dry.
showed no tickets and were passed it, Mike, that in so many votes it the speed of our engines.
should be neck and neck between two men?" "Well, I'll tell ye, Pat. "We have also found out some- Thoy're both very unpopular men,thing elsa by releasing balloons and if you knowed wan, ye'd be sure with automatic radio-sets and of thermometers attached into high them are well known, do ye mind?" altitudes above the Arctic: the
"I do," replied Pat, solemnly.
stratosphere over the Polar re- gions is warmer than above the A tale is told of the old days of tropics. So we shall not even the moonlighters, that two men wait-have to bother about heating our ed behind a hedge to shoot an elderly cabins, as we have to do now, on en magistrate on his way home from an extent as to make non-cannot be expected to make all
[our Arctic planes." court. They waited for hours, but intervention a reality. A fur-the concessions; without really compartment along with his priest. the victim failed to appear. "He's The occupation of the North ther point which Britain puts sincere co-operation, and a spirit No sooner had Pat sat down than late," said one. "He is that." replied Pole by man for the first time in two very stout women sat down on the other, "I hope nothing has hap history is an event equal in im- forward is that the Non-Inter-of give-and-take, no progress elther side of him. "Have you room pened to the poor ould gentleman."portance to Bleriot's flight across vention Committee consider the towards the desired end can be enough?" asked the priest. "Sure. Two Irishmen were discussing the English Channel. To many
And employment by both sides of attained.
public meetings. "Did ye ever nd it may still look like a stunt. no situation
dress a large audience?" ane asked. foreign aircraft which enter which permits of the continued
An Irish labourer passing through | "I did." "And what did ye say? "I After all, the French General
Staff decided as late as 1910 that. Spain under their own power. presence of foreign combatants Liverpool on his way to the harvest just says, not guilty, my lord."
felds, thought he had been ill- He must have been a delightful aviation meant nothing in mill- Here, galu, possible objection, and aircraft in Spain can be said treated by a rallway porter and fellow who, when two wandered tary strategy. Bilbao and Addis raising the point of Italo-Ger- to meet the requirement of determined to have his revenge. travellers asked him the way to their Ababa think differently to-day..
en-absolute disinterestedness by he was very faily and excited, al- now, if I were going to that place, Polar bears will not even
When he got into his compartment, destination, musingly repted. "Well In ten or twenty years' time man sincerity, may be countered from Rome
and outside Powers upon which any fellow-passenger asked what made Perhaps the world will not be much as look up when they hear Berlin. The British plan is scheme of real non-intervention him so happy, he replied that he had better until we learn to start pro-n man shout: "North Pole
had his revenge on "that spalpeen gressing from where we are. confessedly a compromise. If it must in the last resort rest..
of a porter out there." "What have
All change for San Francisco!" F. J. B.
of
you must be nearing the end your journey!"
Another railway story la of Irishman who entered railway
I've no room to grumble."
most dancing in his glee. When ta
I shouldn't stort from here."