PERIL IN ICEPACK.
Japanese Steamer May Have To be Abandoned. APPEAL FOR WARSHIP. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, April 21. Tlic Japanese steamer Genzan Maru, which is caught in the icepack off Kamchatka, wirelesses that conditions are becoming worse, although a storm lias replenished their water supply. The iccpack lifted the ship, but she dropped
. back undamaged and is pounding danger- , ously. Open water is nowhere in sight. 5 The owners are appealing to the 1 Admiralty for a warship to blast a : channel. The last_ wireless message announced - that it may become necessary to abandon . the ship. '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 94, 22 April 1931, Page 7
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