ICE-BOUND SHIP
APPEAL FOR HELP OVER ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE ABOARD Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MOSCOW, January 17. The commander of the Cheluskin, the Russian ice-breaker, in a wireless message describing the privations of those ,on board, states that only 500 tons of coal remain, sufficient to keep up steam in one boiler in order to prevent the machinery from freezing. The supply will be exhausted if, as is likely, the vessel remains ice-bound until July. A number of people are in delicate health and ought to be rescued at the earliest possible moment, for which 1 purpose the crew have prepared a landing place for an areoplane by flattening the ice near the ship. There is a constant danger of the Cheluskin going to pieces in a big gale as she is not a proper icebreaker, but merely a reinforced steamer. There are 103 people on board, not ninety-two as previously reported.
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Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 9
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151ICE-BOUND SHIP Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 9
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