FINLAND BLIZZARD
FOUR HUNDRED STILL MISSING. j 200 MEN SAVED. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) HELSINGFORS, March 11. Two hundred fishermen who were marooned on the ice field have reached safety, making their way perilously from the ice floe. Four hundred men and the horses are still missing. Tin) marooned men were fishjug on the i<e when the blizzard arose, and the ice became separated from the mainland, and drifted south-westerly, each drift carrying away a number or men and horses. Tim temperature was thirty-live degrees below Feezing point, and li*w of the. 'men have a reserve supply of food. Their plight in terrible. Two jee floes can be seen to the north of Loesskar, both bearing men and horses.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1932, Page 5
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120FINLAND BLIZZARD Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1932, Page 5
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