ICEBOUND IN ARCTIC
SEVERAL RUSSIAN SHIPS 800 PEOPLE IMPERILLED lUnited Pres* Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! (Received 29th March. 9 a.m.) LONDON. 28th March. Eight hundred men. women and children are imperilled aboard seven Russian freighters and six ice-breakers which are ice-bound north of Siberia says the Oslo correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.”
The vessels started during the summer and autumn to demonstrate the possibility of sailing from. Archangel to the Pacific.
Five 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-brsakcr. carrying 296 people, are 300 miles east of Cape Helyuskin and 2000 miles from Archangel Four ice-breakers, carrying 270 people are 400 miles westward.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 March 1938, Page 5
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