SABOTAGE CHARGE
SOVIET WIRELESS OPERATOR. SEARCH FOR ARCTIC FLYERS. Received Feb. 19. 5.5 p.m. MOSCOW, Feb. 17. M. Voznisinsky, chief wireless operator at Tikhaya Bay, will be charged at the Municipal Court on February 25 with counter-revolution-ary activity, including sabotage, in connection with the search for the flyer Levanevski in 1937. An attempted Soviet trans-Polar flight from Moscow to Alaska was commenced when the Russian pilot Levanevski. with five companions, left on August 12. 1937, in a four-engined amphibian. The plane was due to arrive at Fairbanks (Alaska) on August 14. the date on which messages from the plane were last received, but there has since been no word of it. Several rescue expeditions, one led by Sir Hubert Wilkins, tried unsuccessfully to find the aviators.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 42, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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126SABOTAGE CHARGE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 42, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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