FISHERMEN’S PLIGHT
ADRIFT ON ICE-FLOE PLANE TO THE RESCUE (Received February 26, 2 p.m.) MOSCOW. Feb. 25. An aeroplane lias been dispatched to drop food and medicines on to a drifting ice-floe, which has broken away from the main icefield in the Caspian witli 400 fishermen and 190 horses marooned on it.
Ice-breakers will proceed to the rescue as the aeroplane directs.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18332, 26 February 1934, Page 8
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