RUSSIAN NAVAL BASE
Move To Ice-Free Port Contemplated
(Receive'd November 29, 12.30 a.m.)
London, November 28.
The "Daily Herald’s” Copenhagen correspondent says Russia contemplates moving her main naval base from tlio ice-bound, land-locked Kronstadt to Poljarno, a jiort free from ice throughout the year, near Murmansk, on the Arctic Coast, which is already populated by 100,000 workers building docks and completing a first-class base.
A chain of aerodromes uud an excellent railway connect Leningrad with Poljarno. 'Abe transfer would give the Acet continuous access to the Atlantic and further afield.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 55, 29 November 1937, Page 6
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90RUSSIAN NAVAL BASE Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 55, 29 November 1937, Page 6
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