Moscow, Apr. 30.
Three Soviet aeroplanes, from the base-in Bixin Bay near the mouth of the River Lena, rescued 184 people from two ice-breakers drifting with masses of pack ice in the far north.
The thrilling episode involves the vessels Malyguine and Sadko which were surprised by ice closing in on them while they were taking a Russian scientific expedition to the Long Islands in the Arctic regions.
Thirty-five men of the northbound group are left on board the two ice-breakers with provisions and fuel to last for two years.
This expedition was commanded by Professor Samoilovitch, who in 1028 was on board the ice-breaker Krassine, which rescued General Nobile and his ill-fated Italian north pole expedition that ventured over the northern wastes in the dirigible Italia—Havas.
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