1937-05-17 — Page 2

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ARCTIC ROUTE TO THE

FAR EAST

SOVIET REGULAR SHIP PLAN

Details of the Russian plan for [1986 they transported over 20,000 establishing à regular shipping ser- tons of cargo and 400 passengers. vice during the summer months be- By 1940, if the Soviet Govern- tween the White Sea and the Farment's plan is carried out accord- East by the Arctic route are pul ing to timetable, 44 ships with a lished in а German Admiralty (cargo capacity of 352,000 tons will [journal, writes Hector Bywater:

The development of this route is making excellent progress, and some $5,000,000 was included in the 1936 Soviet budget for continuing the work.

The strategic importance of the new highway to the Far East is. emphasised in the Russian Press, In the event of war in the Pacific, Russia would not have to depend entirely on the Trans-Siberian rail- way for the transport of munitions and supplies to her Far Eastern front.

Vladivostok Terminal

be trading between the White Sea, the Polar islands, and the northern- most Siberian ports; three larger ships will be running regularly from Archangel-Murmansk to Vla- divostok, and two others in the re- verse direction.

A special service is to be main- tained between Murmansk and Petropavlovsk, in Kamtchatka.

Value Of Aircraft

The unusual severity of ice con- ditions this year yielded valuable experience. It was found hat the small aircraft carried on board the icebreakers for reconnoitring were The terminal ports are Archan-unsuited for the work; from now gel, in the White Sea, and Vladivos onwards powerful shore-based tok, in the Pacific.

aeroplanes are to be used for ice re- For several years, Russian mer-connaissance. chant ships have been using the Aerodromes have been built at Arctic route, assisted by ice-Dickson Harbour, at the mouth of breakers and aircraft, and during the Lena river, and at several plaçes further towards the East, so that ships now receive reliable news of

FLYING "CAMP" ice conditions.

FOR BOYS

NEW TRAINING SCHEME

Already 100 observation stations in active operation along the route, but it will be three years before the whole coast is equipped with the necessary lighthouses, buoys, and direction-finding stations.

Dickson Island has a first-class

Schoolboys, above the age of 17, harbour, where a large coal-bunker- who wish to learn to fly will this ing depot, equipped with cranes and year again have the opportunity transporters, has been built. Other

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afforded by the Public Schools Aviation Camp.

fourth annual

harbours are under construction at This will be the Tiksi Bay-near the Lena delta-- "camp," though Provodenia Bay, and in the Kolima

the term "camp" is misleading, for delta.

members do not live in tents.

Rivers Busier

What is virtually a Public Schools The opening of the Arctic route Flying Club will open on August 3 has greatly stimulated traffic on the and will last for five weeks. As Siberian rivers. Not before, it will be at Mousehold Aero-Yenessei and the Ob, but the rivers only the

drome, Norwich, and it has been Kolima, Piassina, Jan and Indirka now have their own flotillas, and so great is the demand for new vessels that the local shipyards cannot cope with it.

organised by Dr. H. Birchall, ‚of Taunton School, for the Norfolk and Norwich Aero Club.

In the first year of its existence there were only seven members, but

One of the pioneer icebreakers, they all qualified for the "A" flying the Litke, which made the passage certificate: Since then there has from Murmansk to Vladivostok, re- been a steady increase, and the usecently returned to Europe via ful holiday afforded is expected to Canada," the Panama Canal, and lead to an extension of the system. England, to be available for the com-

ing season..

ice- Two very powerful new in the R.A.F., and several have gone craft and a catapult, are building breakers, each carrying three air- into the University Air Squadrons, in Russia for service on the Arctic while two have entered upon courses route.

Club's Four "Planes

More than 20 members of past “camps" now hold commissions

at Air Service Training, Hamble, with a view to careers in commercial flying.

The Club owns three "Moth" aeroplanes and one "Hornet" Moth. Flight-Lieut. T. K. Bullmore is chief instructor.

The fees for the course, including board, and lodging, are:

5 weeks in "camp," £9 58;

FREER RULES FOR GERMAN STUDENT DUELS

Nazi student leaders have chang ed the traditional rules of the fam- ous German student duel. The new duelling code permits the fighters to shift their feet freely while ex-

9 hours' dual instruction at 358 changing blows with their oppon- per hour, £15 15s;`

3 hours solo flying at 30s per hour, £4 108; :

ente...

The old rules kept them a certain distance apart from each other and Extra flying time to the value of disqualified them for moving. 'in 108.

Total, £80.

either direction. Now the duellers can slash at each other's faces from Applicants for membership must any angle and thus inflict wounds have attained the age of 17 within that were formerly impossible. seven days of the beginning of the camp. The latest day for entry will be July 7.

The number of ships, under construc- tion by German shipbuilding firms at This year the "camp" will offer the end of March was 266, with a total opportunities to past members to keep the yards busy until the latter tonnage 1,060,815, and contracts will take "refresher" courses.

part of 1988.