SOVIET SHIP SINKS.
DEATHS IN PACK ICE. SPTIZBERGEN, May 6. ‘.‘Farewell to everybody; we are sinking,” was the last wireless message received from the Soviet salvage steamer Rouslan, which foundered with a crew of twenty-three off South Cape, Spitzbergen, where the vessel has been stranded in pack-ice for two months. The little Russian colony at Barentzburg heard the wireless appeal a.nd dispatched assistance, but the signals ceased on April 26. A search for survivors has been made, hut withoilt t&~ suit. ■
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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