ICE-BOUND SHIPS.
RELIEF FOR PASSENGERS. Received May 27, 8.5 i a.m. MOSCOW, May 26. Three airmen have travelled a total of 14.000 miles on relief flights to the icebreakers, which are icebound north of Siberia. They took off 184 persons and took two years’ supplies to those remaining. , Eight hundred men, women and children are imperilled aboard seven Russian freighters and six ice-breakers which are ice-bound north of Siberia, stated the Oslo correspondent of the Daily Telegraph on March 28. The vessels started during the summer and autumn to demonstrate the possibility of sailing from Archangel to. the Pacific. 1' ive of the freighters, escorted by an ice-breaker and carrying 250 people, were last reported in November. Their present position .is unknown. Two freighters and an ice-breaker, carrying 296 people are 300 miles east of Cape Helyußkin and 2000 miles from Archangel. Four ice-breakers, carrying 270 people, are 400 miles westward.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 27 May 1938, Page 7
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151ICE-BOUND SHIPS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 27 May 1938, Page 7
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