TREMENDOUS TASK

Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4180, 1 March 1934, Page 5

TREMENDOUS TASK

Arctic Rescue Endeavour SOVIET STEAMERS SAVE 150 FISHERMEN WHO WERE MAROONED CHET. IU SIC IN CASTAWAYS IN DIFFICULT POSITION EFFORTS SO FAR FAILED TO GET THEM OFF ICE By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received March 1, 9.50 a.m.) Riga, February 28 Reports state that Soviet steamers rescued the 150 fishermen marooned on ice fields in the Caspian Sea. The other party is still drifting. CRITICAL CONDITIONS The rescue of the Cheliuskin castaways is proving more difficult than anticipated. Aeroplanes have not succeeded even in sighting them and some of the machines were damaged hv the had weather and the dog teams are unable to negotiate the rough ice seperating the castaways’ encampment from the mainland. Further aeroplanes are being dispatched from Vladivostok. THE CASTAWAYS (Marooned on the ice are 92 Russians, including five women and one child. They were obliged to abandon the ice-breaker Cheliuskin when she was nipped by the ice and sunk off North-East Siberia.)