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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1988.

Ice-Floe Scientists Facing Catastrophe 3rd Week Specials

Dramatic Radio Message As They Drift From Frozen Water Towards

FLOTEST AGAINST JAPAN-Cimuring their shelves of more, than 200 boxes of Japanese merchan- dise, 109 merchants of East Liverpool, Ohio, piled the boxes on a hilltop and set them atire. The action was in line with the boycott backed by A. F. of I. President William Green, Above, the pack- ages are about to be fired. In a short time only nshes remained.

Human Robot Astonishes

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By A Correspondent

TOR an hour recently I watched an electric robot

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Mass Of Icebergs

ENGLISH LISTENERS HEAR THE CALL

A

EXPLORERS TALK OF

RESCUE PLANS

LONDON SUNDAY EXPRESS representative,

Surrey Hills, heard one of the most dramatic radio messages ever sent out.

It came from the four Russian scientists who are living in a tent pitched on an ice-floe nine feet thick and two square miles in area drifting in the Arctic.

The scientists are Ivan Papanin, leader; Eugene Federoff, meteorologist; Pyotr P. Shirshov, hydrologist, and Ernest Krenkel, radio operator.

They landed on the floe on May 21. Since then they have Polar stream. They are now fearful that they will be hurled to destruction on the dangerous coasts of North-East Greenland, with its tumbled mass of grinding icebergs.

German Babies drifted nearly 700 miles southward in the grip of the irresistible

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Just over from Germany, where it took seven years to produce, the Germany; it was announced to- robot entertained a group of London business men, and when asked by day, has earmarked £12,000,000 the inventor, "Well, is it a human being or a robot?", not one of them to be distributed in marriage was prepared to give u straight answer.

loans and baby horuses.

Of course, they were not allowed to touch R, but from five feet away you couldn't tell whether the eyes were not real or whether the face was not a flesh and blood one.

Here are some of the things the robot, handsome and smartly dressed

as a young man-about-toton, didi

It got up from a chair and walked the length of the room.

It took off his pardon, its-felt hat with a gracious bow.

It smoked a cigarette. Blew smoke through its nose.

It drank a glass of water. Picked up the glass from a table

returned it.

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On The North Pole

When the four men landed they were exactly geographically on the North Pole.

Here is the scientists' message:-

"Please do not think we are in a hurry to leave. We expect to return to Moscow in March or April, when we have finished our original plan for exploration.

"In the last two months our foe has drifted much faster than we expected, and the direction of Its drift has changed from south-east to south-west.

"As a result we have drawn closer to Greenland and turned from the original course towards the middle of the Greenland

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It munched a piece of cake. Adam's apple distinctly moved. Then it startled every one by saying in perfect English, "Hullo, How do you do?" Voice was squeaky, Úpa moved.

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Papanin, sender of the message, describes the alarm of his comrades and himself, and how the floe might be crunched to pieces amid the gigantic mountains of ice.

"Fearful of this, we have redoubled our watch and have carefully studied the movements of the ice.

"We have prepared a complete set of extra equipment for use in the event of a catastrophe."

Papanin says an offer from the Greenland Whale Hunting Company to use their food bases on the eastern shore of Green. lund has been declined with thanks.

"We will try to stay on our floe as long as our supply of food lasts, and we have all that we think we need."

When The Ice-Floe Melts

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