800 IN PERIL ON ICEBOUND SHIPS
(Received 10 a.m.) ' LONDON, March 28. Eight hundred men women and children are in peril aboard seven Russian freighters and six icebreakers, which are icebound north of Siberia. The vessels started last summer and autumn to demonstrate the possibility of sailing from Archangel to the Pacific. Five of the freighters, escorted by an icebreaker and carrying 250 people, were last reported in November, and their position is at present unknown. Two freighters and an icebreaker carrying 296 persons are 200 miles from Archangel, and four icebreakers carrying 270 people are 400 miles west of them.
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Northern Advocate, 29 March 1938, Page 7
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101800 IN PERIL ON ICEBOUND SHIPS Northern Advocate, 29 March 1938, Page 7
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