"Pravda" states editorially: "The h.foic work of the drifting North Pole station has secured to the Soviet Land domination over the endless Arctic wastes. The North Pole is and will remain Soviet... The ex-plait of our heroes was inspired by their great love for their Fatherland, There were four of them on the ice-floe But if it were necessary, the great Soviet people would advance thousands of such heroes."
In an interview with press representatives on board the icebreaker Yermak, Dr. Otto Schmidt stated:
"The wonderful polar expedition is brilliantly concluded. To-day the radio station North Pole sent its last radiogram—a solemn report to the Government. "Jubiliation swept the country. Such a successful conclusion of the operation is the result of large-scale operations and persistence with which the Government has organized the evacuation of the heroic doursome,"—Tass,
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