DANGER TO SHIPPING.
o- [ EXTRAORDINARY CHANGE IN CURRENT. By TtltgrAph.—Prest Auoclatlon.~<C«i>yrithi, LONDON, 27th January. According to advices received irom Alaska, steamers frequenting the northern waters report that an extraordinary change has b«een noticed in the "Japan current"— which sweeps through Behring Strait from tho Arctic Sea, flowing toward the Siberian coast at a rate of Irom two to three knots an hour. One vessel is stated to have beeS carried twenty mile» out of her course, and another found herself fifty-five miles out | of her reckoning., ■ No explanation of the 'phenomenon is ! forthcoming, but shipping is being warned by wirolsss of the new danger.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 24, 29 January 1912, Page 7
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104DANGER TO SHIPPING. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 24, 29 January 1912, Page 7
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