ICE-BOUND SHIPS
RESULT OF WRECKING PLOT i STATEMENT BY SOVIET GOVERNMENT [United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph -Copy right. 1 MOSCOW, 29th March. The Government declares that the ships are icebound as the result of a wrecking plot in the northern sea route administration controlling Arctic 1 enterprises. Eight hundred men, women and children are imperilled aboard seven Rus- , sian freighters and six ice-breakers which are ice-bound north of Siberia. The vessels started during the summer and autumn to demonstrate the possibility of sailing from Archangel to the Pacific. PROFESSOR SCHMID INVOLVED j (Received 30th March, 12.25 p.m.) MOSCOW, 29th March. I Professor Otto Schmid, erstwhile one of Russia’s official heroes, who exchanged kisses with Stalin after his return from a flight in which he landed on an icefloe, upon which members of the Papanin expedition were marooned, thereafter gaining the Order of Lenin, a money gift, is among the executives involved in the wrecking ; Plot. j Nineteen officials of the Kazakhstan | republic were shot for high treason, | sabotage and espionage.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 7
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