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NORTH POLE RESCUE DRAMA

Airmen Take Off To Save Marooned Scientists

Moscow, To-day.

Regardless of unpropitious weather, three aeroplanes of the Soviet Arctic expedition at the

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North Pole hastily left Prince Rudolf Island last GERMAN night to attempt to get into touch with the party of scientists now on the drifting ice floe.

Anxiety is due to an announcement from the North Pole radio that the ice floe, on which the party has established a complete camp, is drifting rapidly towards Greenland.

BID FOR AMITY

CANNOT ANNEX

THE POLE

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LONDON, TO-DAY. 2121 THE PLAN FOR ESTAB- LISHING SOVIET CONTROL OF THE NORTH POLE RE- |GIONS BY ERECTION OF A RUSSIAN· AERODROME AND WEATHER STATION, HAS LED TO A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF UNFAVOURABLE COM- MENT IN THE BRITISH NEWSPAPERS.

Paris, To-day. "Germany desires agreement with France, and I hope that my

Last night's relief expedition conversations in Paris will con- scientific instruments, foodstuffs, tribute towards an

to

Yesterday evening's journals de- clare that Britain will not recognise Russian territorial claims to the North Pole.

The papers point out that there is no continent at the North Pole but only ice fields floating in the open sea, which cannot be annexed, according to International Law.

The "Evening Standard” says that United States Government·· circles

took vital supplies, including

improving DORET OFF

fuel, motors and tents, but the atmosphere, leading finally

job will be to find the complete economic and political great j ON HOP TO was

polar party, as the radio reports agreement and the entente be- heavy clouds of fog obscuring tween the two civilisations which

we desire." TOKYO

the sun at the Pole.

The relief party intend to locate

So declared the German Minister take a similar attitude, and recall. for Economics and Reichsbank that when the American explorer, above the Full of optimism that they the North Pole from

President, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Robert Peary, discovered the North will reach the Japanese capital clouds and then swoop down and within the stipulated 100 hours fly low, with a distance of three after arrival in the French capital Pole in 1906, the Pole was only and so gain the French Air miles between each plane, combing Ministry's príze of 400,000 francs the vast wastes for the marooned (£3,000) for the Paris-Tokyo scientists.

If the plan fails, the airmen will flight, the French airmen, Mar- cel Doret and Francois Michelet-land and attempt to establish radio ti, hopped off from Shanghai în communication with the marooned their Simoun monoplane at 12.35 scientists. this afternoon on the last leg of their long venture.

The fliers arrived at Lunghwa aerodrome at 9.57 this morning and spent their stay of over two hours in the northern city in

refuelling

their plane and in snatching some

M. Molokov, who was the hero of the rescue of 39 castaways in Arctic when steamer

from Berlin.

symbolically decorated with the “All countries must make American flag and not annexed. common effort for this purpose," Trans-Ocean.

he continued. "We are ready to

co-operate with you as with all make political proposals, Object nations of goodwill, and I am cer- of the visit was to open the Ger- tain that the French Government man pavilion at the Paria Exhibi- in this matter holds the same tion. views as ourselves.”:

He considered that proposals for Dr. Schacht added that he had an international economic confer- Chelyuskin was crushed by the not come to borrow money or to ence were premature. Router

ice in 1934, is leading the relief party.

The whole country is following

sleep in preparation for the drama- his fortunes breathlessly.---Reuter.

tic dash to Tokyo. They have hours 81 minutes in which to reach Tokyo if they are to gain the prize, and success or failure, will be extremely, close thing,

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RADIO MESSAGE

Local Weather Forecast

The Royal Observatory reportë. Pressure continues to be highest

.....

over

A terse wireless message receiv-over the Pacific to the east of the ed in Hong Kong at 10.05 this Bonins, it is relatively low morning from the airmen, speeding China generally with a depression northward in their Simoun mono indicated in the Yellow Sea. plane indicated that the airmen are Local. forecast: fighting a desperate battle against derate: f fair. time.

E. winds, mo

The message said: Arriving this afternoon was provided by Shanghai five minutes," showing their second failure to land at Kal that the airmen thus had just un- Tack, where once again Mr. A. J. der eight hours in which to cover R. Moss, Superintendent of the the the remaining- distance of over Airport, remained on duty in 1,100 miles to the Japanese capital.expectation that the French fliers

The flier's chances at first seem-would stop here.

Leaving Fort Bayard at 2.45 this ed to have been ruined by their. fatal delay yesterday, when they morning, they are believed to have inexplicably failed to arrive at passed close to the Hong Kong and landed at Fort around 4 o'clock and

Colony at 9.57

machine to a land-

Bayard when it was thought they brough nghwa, where a crowd

were well on their way to Shanghai. ing

had again assembled in the belief that the airmen would arrive at 9

~KAI TACK VIGIL Indication of the airmen's tempt to reach Tokyo before e 6.06 o'clock.

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