The Archive · 1929

Colonizing Franz Josef Land

Moscow, Sept. 3.

'The most northerly wireless and meteorological station in the world Eas been established at Trangui Bay, Franz Josef Land, by a Soviet expedition which went' there some months ago aboard an ice-breaker. Buildings ate being erected © on Franz Josef Land to accommodate the first Soviet colonists.

The ice-breaker has now returned to Russia—Reuter.

The scone of the wreck was five miles off the California coast, near Santa Craz.

Sept. 1.

Five coast guard ships and many volunteer vessels are still engaged in what has thus far, proved a futile search for the bodies of 68 victims of the sinking of the coastal steamship San Juan §0 miles south today when fire gutted a threcstorey apartment—United Press,

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