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That's why we came back non-stop to the cabin-to pick up more petrol. All IGY stations in Greenland have been ordered to join in the search.

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US coastguard cutters are on the job, a flotilla of Canadian destroyers have been rerouted from mid-Atlantic and are steaming at full speed for the southern entrance of the Davis Strait-although it will take them at least thirty-six more hours to get there-and a British aircraft-carrier, accompanied by a couple of destroyers, has already rounded Cape Farewell: we don't know yet how far north she can get, the ice is solid on the Baffin side, but it's open at least to Disko on the Greenland coast, maybe as far as Svartenhuk. A dozen US air force search bombers are already operating from Thule and Sondre Strom-fjord.

American, British, French and Canadian fishing trawlers are moving in to the Greenland coast-the west coast mainly. Merchant vessels of several nationalities have been diverted. Anyway, they've mounted the biggest air-sea rescue search since the war. Don't ask me why they're convinced-I've no idea. They say this hasn't been announced officially, but the US and British governments are convinced that the plane has not been lost at sea, but that it has landed somewhere in Greenland or Baffin Island.

Tuesday morning -yesterday, that is-we heard from the Uplavnik base. We heard Monday afternoon, on both British and American broadcasts, of the overdue airliner.

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