RUSSIAN VESSELS
ICEBOUND IN NORTH SIBERIA LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE OH BOARD Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 28. Eight hundred men, women, and children are in peril aboard seven Russian freighters and six ice-breakers which are icebound in North Siberia, says the Oslo correspondent of the ‘ Daily Telegraph.’ The vessels started during the summer and autumn to demonstrate the possibility of sailing from Archangel to the Pacific. Five of the freighters, escorted by icebreakers and carrying 250, were last reported in November. Their present position is unknown. Two freighters and an icebreaker carrying 296 are 300 miles east of Cape Helyuskin and 2,000 miles from Archangel, and four icebreakers carrying 270 are 400 miles westward.
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Evening Star, Issue 22919, 29 March 1938, Page 9
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115RUSSIAN VESSELS Evening Star, Issue 22919, 29 March 1938, Page 9
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