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THE SCANDINAV'IAN AMERICAN
large Number of Russians
Work Quietly In Spitzbergen
(Continued from Page. 6)
cal than mines in the Urals. But
any less conveniently situated 10-
cality than Spitzbergen is hard to
imagine.
Mr. Naomkin was away during
the winter, leaving in charge his
assistant managing director, Boris
Schenko, who is a newcomer. Lo
cal Soviet power behind the scenes
also is a newcomer, Feodor Fetch
in, who was suddenly nominated
consul during the winter.
No other nation except Britain,
whose consul is resident 500 miles
away at Tromso in North Norway
and never visits Spitzbergen, has
diplomatic representation here.
No Soviet attempt to establish
liaison with the 10 per cent Com
munist Norwegian miners on Spitz
bergen appears to have been made.
But at higher levels the Russians
have been busy contacting senior
Norwegian officials.
Mr. Schenko and Mr. Fetchin
have paid several formal visits to
Gov. Haakon Balstad. wartime de
partmental chief in the Norwegian
Board of Trade in London. and pil
lar of the Norwegian Literary So
ciety.
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The Norwegian telegraph direc
tor in Longyear and an assistant
have been lavishly entertained by
the'Russians at Barentsburg, and
so have operators of the Cape
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But the Norwegians have glean
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fact that the Russians purport to
be employing the Stakhsnovist sys
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ductive mines.
Although many Russians obvi
ously understand German and a
few English. none of them except
Mr. Naomkin dares speak any
thing except Russian.
Estimates of the local Russian
population vary from 800 to 2.000,
as compared with 1.280 Norwe
gians. No Norwegian has any idea
what the Russians import besides
food and some building materials.
There is no assurance the Rus-
sians are disarmed in conformity
with the 1920 treaty.
A little mining appears to be
proceeding at Barentsburg and at
Grumant, but Pyramid headquart
ers appear idle.
For all the Norwegians know,
the Russians may be working over
time on fortifications under cover
of the perpetual winter darkness,
when communications across the
island can be established only by
tractors or dog teams. '
Not content with their existing
stranglehold on Spitzbergen. the
Russians are negotiating with‘the
Norwegians to acquire fresh terri
tory around Jons Fjord, where
there is no coal but a useful site
for outflanking the third Norwe
gian mining settlement at King's
Bay (N.y Aalesund) to the north.
The existence of these negotiations
is officially denied.
A leading Norwegian official
told me: “The Russians will take
anything they can get on Spitzber
gen. regardless of its economic
worth. They appear to be more
interested in strategy than min
ing."
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with 336 passengers, among whom was Professor Martin Deutsch.
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Swedish Research Ship Gets
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Samples of the world‘s ocean
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and submarine photographs at
depths where light barely penc
trates are among the records-of
the Swedish expedition ship. Alba
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amid the smoke and grime of Lon
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had taken her across all the
world’s major oceans and into the
colorful South Seas. ‘
Prof. Hans Fetterssen. leader of‘
the ship's natural scientists, who
have brought back 4,000 samples
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world. rare deep-sea. fish speci
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hitherto untapped ocean sea beds
lying down to 5,000 fathoms (30.-
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ocean floor's carpet of sediment
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