Scientists Adrift om Raft of Ice Still Safe Moscow, Feb, 4.
There has ben a great "spy here, and it 's several persons have been executed in the past few days. A suspect was arrested opposite the Shameen bridge this morning.
Yesterday evening a stray bullet entered the house of a German resident living in the Tungshan district, but no one was injured.
On urgent orders from Moscow. the ice-breaker Taimyr has left Mur-mensk for the Gteenland Sea to rescue the five Soviet scientists, headed by M. Ivan Papanin, who are drifting helplessly on a ledge of ice measuring 50 by 30 yards somewhere ~eff the north coast of Greenland, Dr. Otto Schmidt, famous Polar explorer, is preparing to sail from Leningrad on another ice-breaker, whea will have a flying-boat aboard.
Just before the Taimyr left, 600 Workers began repairs on the icebreaker Ermak, which is also at Murmansk, The men are working day and night to prepare the ship for an early, start to join the rescue expedition.
The scientists, according to messages picked up here, are all well and. the situation base improved. They have food, supplies sufficient for three months. They still have their scienti-fle equipment and the results of their observations,—Reuter. hips Bottled Up All foreign vessels on the Pearl River have been bottled up as a result of the action of the Chinese authorities in closing the boom near the mouth of the river.
They include the American gunboat Mindanao and the British gunboats Moth (625 tons). Robin (226 tons), Tarantula (825 tons), and Seamew (262 tons).
The closing of the boom was discovered this morning by the river-boat Taishan, which was forced to return to Canton when it found the usual opening closed, All day long soldiers with fixed bayonets patrolled the streets, For some unknown reason, the telephone service was disrupted this morning, Many foreigners living in the Tungshan and Saichuen districts spent last night in Shameen, chiefly because of the nervousness of their Chinese servants, who refused remain on the premises—Reuter.
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