Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31

| first cO-OperaClOn OF German ana RuS-
sian science and technique for the ex-
ploration of the Arctic accomplished
such splendid results. I regret thai
soually wind and uncertain weather
make landing at Leningrad inadvisable
Greetings to the city"
In my radio dispatch wednesday
while the Graf Zeppelin was still far
from Berlin. quoted at length from
| the ships diary for the Arctic cruise.
| This diary gives interesting details OF
our voyage. Also, in that dispatch, l
quoted a statement made to me by
i Prof. Rudolfe Samoilowitsch regarding
the geographical discoveries during the
fight.
Professor Turns Columbus.
i. So, in resuming the diary where 1t
recountS the happenings of last Non-
dav, one finds this amusing entry:
| "Dr. Eckener enters the saloon.
| where Samoilowitsch already had had
about third fit because every 10 min
utes apparently, he is discovering a
new continent. This Columbus game
is terribly trying"
The diary for Monday goes on to
say:
Upon leaving Northern Land at noon
we are all groggy through sleepiness
| ana 1aClSu6. ana We are OC"AOCtCN
| by the midnight sun. Since we left
I,eningrad on the flight into the Arctic
we have neither washed nor shaved.
"Photometric measurements of this
unknown territory over which we are
flying proceeded until 1880 am, but
| we are powerleSs against the fog, which
! impedes the vision. All the same, we
make sure of our sensational discovery
that Northern Land Is immeasurably
bigger than was supposed.
Isolated Radio Post Sighted.
1--WE pass over Kameneff Island,
which is yelled by thick mist, and
about noon we fly over Tayjmir
Peninsula, which only Nettendorf ever
! traverSed. Amundsen and Urmanzeft
explored a tiny corner Of 1t, however.
| Urmanzeff took four months to get
there with reindeer sledgeS.
Nov the white landscape Is giving
place to the brown of the less grandl-
ose Siberian tundra. Scared herds OF
wild reindeer scatter panic-strlcken
before us over the no mans land OF
melancholy, brown steppes stretching
to the far horizon. This terra mcog-
nita was charted by us, too.
About this time we few over Dick
son Radio Station, on the Yenessei
Delta. The station consists of high
radio mast and three miserable looking
hutSs built directly on the EXTREMIST
point of land. Two boats, presumably
belonging to ships of the KaraSea ex-
petition and Junker plane belonging
to the Soviet government, which is ex-
ploring this area, lie in the bay.
Gifts Dropped to Station.
Here six men live in indescribable
| ho entire
! of the station died of scurvy. The last
survivor, having buried four comrades
dragged the fifth over the threshold OF
the station and himself collapsed, life
less
"A year later there were women with
| the new crew assigned. Jealousy
among the men caused a terrible
tragedy, which eliminated in the COM
mandant stabbing the cook. Since then
the Soviet has forbidden women tc
Winter at the Arctic stations.
1.-The Graf circled around over Dick.
son Station at a height of $50 feet
Food and newspapers were dumped
overheard. When the first packet hi
the ground, the whole station crew made
! wild dash In the scramble to gel
gifts.
| Ice Limits and Coast Mapped.
This has been one of the most poig.
nant experiences of the entire expedi.
ton. We felt an intense sympathy fol
these lonely humans in the Arctic wild!
whom the Graf Zeppelin left behinc
to their appalling monotony.
"At midnight we left the Siberian
continent, flying through the fog ovel
the Kara Sea in the direction OF Novs
Zembla."
The diary for the next day, Tuesday
Shortly after midnight Prof. Samoa
lowitSch gave detailed statement
summing up the results of the expedi
ton, as follows:
Ion Nova Zembla the course of thu
northern limit of inland ice, the outline
of the east coast of the northerN hal
of the island and the course of thu
southern limit Of glaciers were deflnitel!
established
Hopes for Cruise in 1882.
valuable results also have been OBJ
tanned from geomagnetic observation
whose object is the safe. navigation o
the Arctic by compass. Prof. Samoilo
witsch said:
"T hope that soon another expedi
ton will go to the extreme north witt
international support. Perhaps sucl
an expedition Will De sent OUT IN 1882
want particularly to emphasize thu
loyal cooperation of all the member
of this present expedition. There ha
been no friction.
"'Within four DAYS we accomplished
work which formerly would have re
quired several simultaneous expedition
working two or three years to achieve
Radio Contact Fails.
The diary for Wednesday says:
In splendid sunshine we picked vi
the Swedish-Norwegian eXpeditionar,
ship. They fired three salutes, and w
replied with a like number. Shortl.
afterward we sighted Rudolfsland ant
Cape Brorak. Here lies the body o
Lieut.. Sedow, buried in the ice. w
saluted the grave by dipping our fiaI
thrice.
Proceeding on our course, We flew
over Eva Island, named for Nansen'
daughter. We corrected wrong char
contours. We attempted vainly to es
tablish radio contact, but the midptgh
sun. killed every short wave message
We heard all senders from Toxic u
Berlin, but none heard u.s.
Copyright. 1884, in North ard South Amer
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