ADRIFT ON ICE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20494, 12 March 1932, Page 15

ADRIFT ON ICE.

SEVEN HUNDRED FINNS O IN A BLIZZARD. SMALL HOPES OF RESCUE. (L'XITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) HELSINGFORS, March 10. A blizzard raging in the Gulf of Finland interrupted the air search for 700 fishermen and 100 horses marooned on an icefield and believed to bo drifting towards the Estonian coast. The ice-breaker Tarno has been sent to join in the search, but the blizzard has greatly reduced the prospect of j rescue. The storm is so severe that steamers are unable to attempt the passage of the gulf, and, consequently, Finland is practically isolated from the south. Uie marooned men were fishing on :o , e ! co wheii the blizzard arose, and e . 'F L ' became separated from the mainland, drifting in a south-westerly p- direction, each drift carrying away a [j. number of men and horses. The tern[<crature was 3oileg. below freezing '= point. v Few of the men have reserve food s. supplies, and their plight is terrible, d Two ice-floes can bo seen north of Locsskar, bath bearing men and horses t LARGE PARTY SAVED. r(.Received March 11th, 7.10 p.m.) HELSINGFORS, March 11. Two hundred of the men who were marooned on the icefield have reached safety by making their way perilously from floe to floe, but 400 men and hoTses are still missing.