The Archive · 1938

FRANCE TO TRY TO END "BOMBING VENDETTAS"

M. Chautemps' Appeal to Humanity of Spanish Factions Paris, Feb. 1.

M. Camille Chautemps, the French Premier, declared to-day that the Government considered it as imperative to try and bring about an end to- the' "appalling air-bombing vendettas in Spain."

"With M. Yvon Delbos, the Foreign Minister," the Premier declared, "I have begun negotiations to gain the help of other Powers. In addressing an urgent appeal to the feelings and humanity of the Governments and their peoples, we have no doubt that

ter ihey wil give their Cyclone Imperils Expedition on Ice-Floe Moscow, Feb, 1, The Soviet North Pole meteorological expedition reported to-day that, as the result of a sudden cyclone. lasting hix days, the drifting 1ce-bee on which the expedition was camped, had cracked, The party are thus marooned on an ice-field measuring 300 by 200 yards, and severing them from their iwo bases and the storehouse, M. Papanin, the leaders of the expedition, stated that a fissure appeared under the expedition's tent forcing them to move into their snow house. They were able to save everything from fuel to general stores in the tent, however, before the fissure widened into a channel, For this reason, no great danger attended the scientists and M: Papanin begged Moscow not to worry.

Nevertheless, a relief expedition -1s hurrying its preparations and will miles from the North Pole towards Greenland.—Reuter.

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