Alleged Plot Imperils Eight Hundred
(Received 3 p.m.) MOSCOW, March 29. The Government declares that the seven freighters arid -six ice-breakers, which are icebound north of Siberia, are marooned as a result of a wrecking plot of the Northern Sea Route Administration, which controls Arctic enterprises. Some 800 men, women and children aboard are in. peril, v The vessels started last summer and autumn to demonstrate the possibility of sailing from Archangel to the Pacific. Professor Otto Schmidt, erstwhile one of Russia’s official heroes, who exchanged kisses with Stalin after his return from a flight in which he landed members of M. Papanin’s scientific party on the North Pole icefloe, thereafter gaining the Order of Lenin and a money gift, is among the executives involved in the plot. Nineteen officials of the Kazakhstan Republic were shot for high treason, sabotage and espionage.
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Northern Advocate, 30 March 1938, Page 5
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