RUSSIAN CASTAWAYS
RACE WITH DEATH. SOVIET'S SUPREME EFFORTS. Moscow, March 21. The intensive efforts of the Soviet Government to rescue the wrecked crew of the steamer Cheliuskin, who have been marooned on the ice in the Arctic Circle for nearly a month, have developed into a race with death. The last message from the heroic party of castaways tapped out the news on Sunday that portion of the landing-place cleared on the ice cake for aeroplane rescuers had split off before the force of the coming storm.
A further wireless communication was smothered beneath the subsequent blizzard, which also prevented a squadron of giant aeroplanes, ordered in from the Far East, from reaching the rescue workers' base from Khabarovsk. The most powerful Russian icebreaker, the Krassin, has hurried out of the repair dock in far-away Kronstadt, oh the Bay of Finland, in the faint hope that the four weeks' journey round Scandinavia may .possibly be completed in time to render aid. The Government has now placed at the disposal of the rescue staff two single-motored non-rigid airships of 3000 and 5000 cubic metres capacity, which already are speeding north in the last extremity, as they have never yet been operated under Arctic conditions.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4527, 5 April 1934, Page 5
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203RUSSIAN CASTAWAYS King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4527, 5 April 1934, Page 5
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