ARCTIC PERIL.
Hundreds of Men, Women and
Children Menaced.
FREIGHTERS ICEBOUND
LONDON, March 2S
Light hundred men, women and children are in peril aboard seven Russian freighters and six icebreakers, which are icebound north of Siberia, says the Oslo correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph.-' The vessels started last summer and autumn to demonstrate the possibility of sailing from Archangel to the Pacific.
live of the freighters, escorted bv an icebreaker and carrying 200 people, were last reported in November, and their present position is unknown.
Two freighters and an icebreaker carrying 20(i persons are .'!00 miles east of Cape Chelyuskin. 200 ft miles from Archangel, and four icebreakers carrying 270 people are 400 miles '"to tiie westward.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 74, 29 March 1938, Page 7
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