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Meantime, a ship from Norway approached Spitzbergen bearing two seaplanes and their pilots, with instructions to scout the ice floes but not to attempt the hazardous penetration towards the Pole.
The North remained inscrutable. No syllable was on its winds, no whisper in its waves, ice, tides or southering blizzards to tell the condition of the Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen, his five comrades and two seaplanes, whom it had swallowed up (TIME, June 1) as they soared away from Spitzbergen...
Rescue. Expeditions were considered, planned, offered, but held in abeyance in the U. S., France, Germany. The Norwegian Government prepared planes, but gave no orders for starting. First to act was the Norwegian Aero Club, which ordered a party to start for Spitzbergen with seaplanes for scouting.
¶¶ A British proposal to exclude warships, submarines, air-and seaplanes and airships from control was passed by a small majority. The U.S. voted to exclude.
The recent manoeuvres at Hawaii, although they have been described at great length in the press, have not resulted as yet in a conclusive victory for either the "attack" by the invading warships and seaplanes or the "defense" by the territorial forces. Although it is natural that, with eight hundred...