Orders to begin rescue operations have been sent from Moscow to the ice-breaker Taimyr at Murmansk, Dr. Otto Schmidt has left for Leningrad from where he will sail on another ice-breaker. In addition a flying-boat has been loaded into the ice-breaker, and preparations for two other planes to assist in the rescue operations are being speeded Dr, Schmidt, on behalf of the Government, has ordered the captain of the 148-ton Soviet steamer Mur-maners to "reach M. Papanin's camp without fail and save the heroes and take them off the ice-floe."
The expedition reported yesterday that, as the result of a sudden cyclone, which lasted for six da the drifting ice-floe on which the expedition was camped, had cracked. Despite their precarious position, M Papanin begged Moscow "not to worry."—Reuter.
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