“MONSTERS” IN RUSSIA

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29749, 16 February 1962, Page 9

“MONSTERS” IN RUSSIA

(N Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)

MOSCOW, Feb. 14. The Soviet Union laid claim today to not one, bnt two "Loeb Ness monsters'* in Russian lakes. Moscow Radio said the first "monster’’ was seen by Soviet geologists in a lake on a barren plateau 3500 ft up in eastern Siberia. They said they first thought it was a barrel in the water. But there was foam rising round it, and as it drew nearer they saw it was a “monster’’ with a

head over six feet in size, eyes wide apart and a 30ft long body with something like a fin on it

The geologists, Moscow Radio said, described the monster as being dark grey They said it approached in spurts. submerging after every spurt Near the shore it halted, making a great deal of foam, then dived and was not seen again. One fisherman from the nearest village. Moscow Radio said, claimed he had been chased by the monster, which had a “huge mouth.” Few details were given of

the second monster, said to have been seen by a party of geographers in a Lake in the Tien Shaw Mountains, on the border of Soviet Central Asia and Communist China. The broadcast said these scientists were in a motor launch and chased a monster which looked like a log moving through the water "very rapidly.” They said the part above the water seemed to have a tail. The scientists tried to capture the monster but it dived into the depths of the lake.