PERIL OF THE ICE.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1920, Page 5

PERIL OF THE ICE.

RESCUE STORE j . ICEBOUND CREW SAVED, .» By Ttlejraph—Fran Asm.—Copyr|jj > :' t| tj Received July 6, 10 pja. j London, Julj 5. Captain Sverdrup reports the re»d » oftW the Solovei, an ice breaker; f ;{j The Sviatogor encountered massts of i old polar iee in the Kara Sea, antf steamed north-west to flpd new and r. more penetrable ice. The Sviatogor reached the Solovei by runß}ng Into tha pack ice, full steam ahead, using all her ten boilers, . Even then elie was sometimes beaten J back, but attacked the pack again, 'and ' Again, though at times obliged to gwka -J ten or a dozen efforts, as the ic« wm''» twenty feet thiek in places. Finally. H the rescue ship brought the gWoreL with 87 persons on board, to AithZn«£ —-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. \ ;■ [A cable message dated M»HI* ''Mm stated that an S.O.S. wiitlut lignal; had been received from the ajfo&brei, joe-bound in the Kara S«&/b#twwn Novaya Zemlya and the Siberian tpaat, , asking for help in humanity*# name for. 1 80 men, women, and children, wko were perishing of cold and nunger. 31# «oalj on the ship was exhausted and wooded barrels were being used forfuel. £attt it was reported that the crew <gttsf '• Solovei abandoned an effort to' ftaoU land, and were awaiting expecte&<MCW ; before the ice pelted, position would be desperate. *ii!swS) ice breaker, Sviatogor, toft BWarn uj rescue the Solovei, The ice brifepSfun) • previously been used for bretitM tM boom at Scapa Flow. Rarfi ttfaW weighted go tons, and the hurled herself against the bdStUk fln two months until the boon .msxffi mobilised.] - _ r j*;'