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Taranaki Daily News, 18 January 1916, Page 5

IN THE WHITE SEA.

A STORY PROM ARCHANGEL. Wellington, Yesterday. A 'boy who is an engineer in the mercantile trade writes that his steamer arrived in Archangel late in October with nearly a thousand Belgian soldiers from Brest. The voyage was risky, as it was believed that Swedish vessels with German officers on board bad been dropping mines about, and, in fact, the day before they left on the return voyage two vessels were blown up in the White Sea and twelve lives lost. Thousands of people watehed the departure from Brest, and the Belgians were given a great send-off. Some had been lighting since the beginning of the war and were going to help Russia with armed motor-ears and as motorcyclists and aviators. The steamer'carried a cargo of machines ready for use. The. Belgians left for Petrograd three days after their arrival and were escorted to the train by a great crowd. Captain Scott's Antarctic ship Discovery arrived on October 29 to load a cargo of alcohol for the French Government. The writer mentions that while ]>« was there the thermometer only read 14 degrees in the sun. lee formed every day and was broken up by icebreakers, yet it would be a month before the sea was frozen solid.