LEADER HARANGUES CROWD
VICTORY FOR PROLETARIAT
I (Received October 2, 11 a.m.) MOSCOW, October 1. The balloon, 117 feet in diameter, was filled with 3000 cubic metres of gas which was expected to expand eightfold during the ascent. After at first dropping only a mile an hour, at the latter stages the_ descent was made with extraordinary rapidity. M. Propokicv's companions were Ernest Birnibaum, an engineer, and C. D. ,Goudonov, scientist.
■ Interviewed., they said they were all tired, but in excellent physical condition. M. Propokiev said that the height they reached excoeded 19,000 metres, but the precise altitude will be known when the Government Commission examines the fiealed barograph.
When they landed, Propokicv harangued an enthusiastic crowd, doscribing the flight as a victory for the Communist Party and the proletariat.
After a flight of ten hours, in which they ascended 55,777 feet, nearly twice the height of Mount Everest, eclipsing their own previous altitude record by half a mile, Professor Piccard and us assistant, Max Cosyns, descended on the [shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on August 18, 1932.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 80, 2 October 1933, Page 9
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