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...Hubert replied that it had really become too risky to venture farther north. Regretfully he was returning to Spitsbergen...
News which came was that the Nautilus lay floating amid ice debris north of Spitsbergen and about 400 mi. from the North Pole. Ice had broken off the submarine's diving fins. Nonetheless. Sir Hubert had water-filled her diving chambers, had nosed under vast cakes of ice. When she first scraped under, the hollow steel hull. Wilkins reported, "was a veritable drum or sound box with the faintest scratch of the ice sounding like the ripping of giant strips of calico. Heavy bumps set up tremors like the continuous shocks of earthquakes...
...route to be taken was undetermined -even the direction was undecided. The Lindberghs might fly east from New York across the Arctic Circle via Labrador, Greenland and Spitsbergen to Peiping, a course that would take them only 850 mi. from the North Pole. Or they might fly west across northern U. S. or Canada (where water stops are plentiful) to Seattle. British Columbia or Alaska, thence to bear along the Aleutian Islands, the southmost tip of Kamchatka, Siberia and across the stepping stones of the Kurile Islands to Japan...
...eastern route. Greenland has been attained by planes from North America or Europe three times before. Spitsbergen figured importantly in the Arctic flights of Wilkins, Byrd, Amundsen. But no plane has yet blazed a trail thence into the Orient. Greatest danger on either route: fog. The Lindbergh plane is radio-equipped. Mrs. Lindbergh, who qualified for a private pilot's license last fortnight, will share the controls...
...Triads (TIME, Jan. 19). Col. Umberto Maddalena, at the controls, was Italy's most decorated airman, most famed next to Balbo. He it was who, scouring the Arctic wastes in 1928, first sighted General Umberto Nobile and his party from the wrecked dirigible Italia, stranded on the ice near Spitsbergen. Sitting behind Col. Madda lena in the seaplane last week was Capt. Fausto Cecconi, 26, former co-holder with Maddalena of two flying records. With their companion, Lieut. Giuseppe Da-monte, they were going to Rome to try and regain their non-refueling endurance and distance records from the French...