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BRITAIN'S PEACE
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FIRMLY believe in the future of transpolar air 'traffic. A few months ago I myself flew over part of that network of Arctic Rehsetantly, but with a view airlines which have now
FORMULA
to securing full co-operation been extended as far as the. between the Powers for the North Pole.
L
HISTORY
ABSENCE of precipita
tion is one of the climatic characteristics of the
Polar regions. Fog is really the
By H. P. Smolka
worst enemy of the Arctic pilot. Author of "Forty Thousand Against
We had to make five forced landings in one night on account of it.
But Vodopyanov, who has more than 3,000 flying hours in the Arctic to his credit, assured preservation of non-interven-
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 of has conceded, 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- the proposal for the granting of head of Russia's Polar organisa- sians have put up along
to coasts and on the islands of the introduced me belligerent rights to both sides tion. He
assured, even when flying blind.
Up to now the world's further- most Polar station was on Rudolf
of "Radio North Pole" for the next twelve months.
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, now 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 sen and magnetological 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-loe nearer the day.
Pole.
The immediate benefit to the whole world will be much more reliable weather-forecasts for all
"An important part of our 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 means besides shots at the sun and temperatures are condition- ed by the dow of air between the and radio beams for the purpose Pole and the Equator. Every of air-navigation in these re-
gions." change of weather on the Pale 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.
with this concession is a require ment that the matter of the withdrawal of foreign com- I also talked to Vodopyanov, Island, 550 miles from the Pole.fitable. 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 has consistently maintained that landing on top of the world.
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Vodopyanov and Shevelyov
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
Island before starting on the
Papanin and his comrades will also make it far easier for ships
through the drifting ice-floes. Vodopyanov .said. "Franz in the Spanish civil war. Coupled | Papanin, who will be the chief Aretic Ocean, safe passages are in Arctic waters to find their way longest hop of the journey," The new scu route to Siberia Joseph's Land can be reached by will become safer and more pro- bont during several months in the summer, thanks to the in- fluence of the Gulf Stream. "Of course, our own work will
"Petrol, food and spare-parts: not be too easy up there," Papanin told me. "The Pole is can be brought there in sufficient est to the Pole is more than 1,000 not terra firma, but ice floating quantities each year to make it
on the ocean. We may drift for a first-class air base. 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
non-intervention cannot be a reality until all foreign volun- teers have been withdrawn. First reactions from Berlin and Rome appear to be a disinclina- tion to agree to the granting of belligerent rights being made conditional on the withdrawal of volunteers, it being argued that it would be difficult to ensure withdrawal from the Loyalist side. The point would seem to be conveniently overlooked in this connection that the British plan includes the despatch of
civil war
MARK IVANOVITCH SHEVELYOV, the commander of Russia's fleet of 125 Arctic. planes, was my com- panion on a flight of three thou- sand miles. We visited the dif ferent Siberian air bases on this trans-Arctic route from Europe and Asia to America. Shevelyov is now at Rudolf Island.
miles away from it.
What was wanted to complete the system was the establish ment of a station in the centre
of the Arctic. been done.
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This has
now
MORE IRISH HUMOUR
on the not.
From
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
New Tokyo, from
York to termed ( you done to him?" "Sure, I've taken Shanghai, or from Moscow to a return ticket, and I'm not coming San Francisco, than to choose a fine round the waist of the globe.
reason
a
In
Ireland has вест I never felt that flying in the
the distressful country, it has
to the back." Arctic was more dangerous than
nevertheless greatly added mirth of the world. There is a Irish humour is not strong in more temperate regions.
about logle, but who wants logic in hum-
"THE trips would be re- Ice-formation on the wings is frankness, a downrightness
duced from fourteen friends that are the best, and I can And it is usually genial, as warm as commissions to both sides in the only to be feared in spring and Irish humour that is very engaging-jour. "I tell you, Pat, it's the ould
Mike?" "Where-I ask ye as man to it will be a little while before spring. for the purpose of 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 new we can start a regular passenger man-where will ye find Who can help chuckling with supervising the withdrawal of is round freezing-point and muis-
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. as the ould ones?" In an election strato-planes
In the two smart foreigners. Obviously such com-
State Senator in the United stratosphere the weather is ata- missions would be international over the plane by the action of who put to confusion
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 character, and there would the propellor, is likely to freeze. youths. They were travelling in the for a
In winter-time the air is com- when a tickel-inspector came,
a friend about the result. "How is stars, and no head-winds brake men for some good young therefore be little ground for
pletely dry.
It the speed of our engines. showed nu tickets and were passed it, Mike, that in so many votes
should be neck and neck between fearing that only the Insurgent
"We have also found out some- two men?" "Well, I'll tell ye, Pat. armies would be subjected to the=
"Now, then," enquired the woman,
They're both very unpopular men, thing else by releasing balloons. withdrawal measures. The very is rejected, the whole machinery "how does it happen that an old wo- and if you knowed wan, ye'd be sure with automatic radio-sets and man like me has to pay, and the likes to vote for the other; and both of thermometers attached into high hesitance of Germany and Italy of non-intervention may break of you rides without a ticket?"
to the withdrawal down, with dire consequences to "Oh." said one of them, "we're them are well known, do ye mind?" altitudes above the Arctic: the to agree
"I du," replied Pat, solemnly.
stratosphere over the Polar re- gions is warmer than above the proposal raises the suspicion Europe as a whole. Viewing the travelling on our good looks."
"Faith, then, came the quick retort,
A tale is told of the old days of tropics. So we shall not even that these two nations are not matter diapassionately, the "you must be nearing the end the moonlighters, that two men walt- have to bother about heating our ed behind a hedge to shoot an elderly cabins, as we have to do now, on prepared to co-operate to such thought occurs that Britain your journey!"
Another railway story is of an magistrate on his way home from our Arctic planes." an extent as to make non-cannot be expected to make all
Irishman, who entered railway 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 ovent equal in im- forward is that the Non-Inter-of give-and-take, no progress either 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
I've no room to grumble."
pubile meetings. "Did ye ever ad- it may still look like a stunt. no situation employment by both sides of attained. And
dress a large audience?" one asked, foreign aircraft which enter which permits of the continued
An Irish inbouree 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."
He must have been a delightful aviation meant nothing in mill- fields, thought he had been ill- Here, again, possible objection, and aircraft in Spain can be said treated by a railway porter and fellow who, when two wandered tary strategy. Bilbao and Addis have his revenge. travellers asked him the way to their Ababa think differently to-day. raising the point of Italo-Ger-to meet the requirement of determined to
When he got into his compartment, destination, musingly repled, "Well In ton bo en-absolute disinterestedness by he was very jolly and excited, el- now, if I were going to that place, Polar bears will not even
or twenty years' time man sincerity, may
Rome countered from
and outside Powers upon which any most dancing in his glee. When I shouldn't start from here,"
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-a man shout: "North Polo
had his revenge on "that spalpeen greasing from where we are. confessedly a compromise. If it must in the last resort rest.
All change for San Francisco !" of a porter out there." "What have
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