Tokyo, Dec. 17.
Twenty-eight additional survivors from the The rescue operations, the Foreign Office announcement said, were car-Sanders ried out in the face of rough weather which continued to prevail Dear me the northern extremity of The 27 survivors from the ill-fated vessel left Wakkanai at 8 o'clock this morning for Otaru where they will join the 402 passengers and members of the crew of the Indigirka who were taken ihere on Friday. Burial services for 502 persons whose bodies were washed ashore near Wakkanai were also conducted on Friday.
The Indigirka ran ashore on a sond bank 800 metres from the snore off Wakkanai in a blinding: snowstorm early on Tuesday morning. Because the weather, the first vessel to reach the scene of the mishap did not arrive until 730 on Wedacs morning.—Domei,
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