Auxiliary Vessel Unable to Tush Through Pack Ice Moscow, Feb, 12.
attempt of the auxiliary ship urmanez to rescue the four Soviet Polar explorers drifting on an iceering with difficulties, A radio message received from the says the ship only just being crushed to pieces by pack ice, During the past four da; the ship failed to get an inch near to the explorers and was even partly driven back. Pressure of the pack ice so terrific that the crew had to blow wp the ice to a thickness of several metres to save the ship. The gale, raging for several days, finally calmed down, but the ship was still unable to make headway and had to steam back at full speed o reach the open sca.
The "Murmanez escaped being crushed but probably is eliminated from the face against death which is now left to the three ice-breakers, Murman, Taimyr and Yermak, Trans-Ocean,
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