THE SEARCH FOR HASSELL AND CRAMER 



I was notified through the Times radio that the 

 Danish Government was being asked through the 

 State Department in Washington to search for the 

 flyers. This request of the State Department was 

 forwarded from Copenhagen to the Greenland 

 authorities, who were instructed to begin the search 

 with all the means at their disposal. The Danish 

 Government went to much trouble and expense 

 in the search which now was put on foot. The 

 larger ships on regular sailings went out of their 

 courses to scan the coast; the motor sloops and 

 schooners belonging to the local governors, in the 

 coast settlements, boats generally of a few tons 

 each, were sent to scout up and down the fjords 

 which indent the coast, and in some cases Eskimo 

 runners were sent inland to communicate with 

 camps of caribou hunters. 



Dr. Knud Rasmussen, the famous Arctic ex- 

 plorer, was at the time on his motor schooner, the 

 Seehonung, which was lying in Holstensborg har- 

 bor and was on his return from his Eskimo colony 

 at North Star Bay. Neglecting his own interests 

 he started out in search of the lost flyers and he 

 used his wonderful prestige with the Eskimo people 

 to organize the search. Landsvogel Peterssen as 

 head of the civil authorities in Greenland was most 

 active and I received from him frequent radio 



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