WIRELESS OPERATOR ON TRIAL
ALLEGED NEGLECT OF DUTY ISOLATION NEAR POLAR WASTES [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received Feb. 26, 7.30 p.m. MOSCOW, Feb. 26. The trial has opened of Mikhail Vosnissensky,’chief wireless operator at Tranquillity Bay, who is accused of sabotaging Polar communications and hampering Levanevsky’s flight to America. Vosnissensky said that hardship and loneliness led to degeneration and indifference to duty, because of physical illness, due to monotony, isolation and long hours. This so tired him that he | shut off the wireless and failed to transmit important messages from Levanevsky. He also suppressed Moscow's order of his dismissal.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 48, 27 February 1939, Page 7
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98WIRELESS OPERATOR ON TRIAL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 48, 27 February 1939, Page 7
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