The Pulaskian., 1920-08-26
'esDerate Battle Fought by Ice-
 breaker With Great FIoes in Kara Sea.
|HP DRIFTS FOR MONTHS
attain Gives a Plain but Graphic Account of PeFilous Voyage-Ex. citing Race in Ice-Laden Sea
 -Joy Hard to Describe.


 |London. Otto Sverdrup's nar- .hye of the rescue of crew and pas fingers from the Russian steamship |Oloyel Boudimirovitch. which drift. l helplessly for months in the Kara Ia. is thrilling tale of Arctic ad- bnture. Captain Sverdrup's story, printed in the London Times, fol- |Ws:
 It was in April last that l was en- Husted with the task of planning, huipping and leading a relief ex- HditiOn to the Kara sea in order to sarch for and if possible to rescue De crew and passengers on board De steamship SoloYei Boudimirovitch, Efieh at the end of January had be- sme damned in the ice outside the Eklte sea and afterward was carried ] the ice through the Kara straits |to the Kara sea. There the vessel Hlfted dangerously about. She had Eft Archangel provisioned for only ko months, and food. coal and fuel |pre falling short.
 Tine big, powerful icebreaker Svia- FeOr was placed at the disposal of Ee expedition by the British govern lent and sent over to Bergen. Here Epwas quickly manned, equipped and <nuioiono1 fo,. .,ixy ,,,onfhc AUn left ETgen on May 13 and arrived at ROmso on the 17th. There we lay Edl June "a very painful period waiting for us and doubly painful RT tse Russians hungry and cold on Eard the Solovei. who had been in- Rmed by wireless that we had =Arted.
 h Eardo we shipped 90 tons of sup es more9 and having left on the fentng of June 9 anchored on the prning of June 12 in Bielushya bay, PVaYa Zemlya, where we took on ard 300 tons of coal from the steam fp Harde, which had been dis lched direct from Tromso.
 Up Against Strong Ice Barrier.
 We passed through Kara straits aetieaIly untroubled by ice until the entng of the 16th. when we en- #antered large mass of old close esed polar ice. It was clearly no
 trying to force a passage through 4s' We had to try to find the newer
 more penetrable ice which had
 1ed from the west into the Kara
 through the strait. We steamed, erelore, in northwesterly direction,
 as there appeared no improvement ne conditions we turned about and fn' Tn soufileasterly direction until
 poar ice was passed.
 'aen, fortunately. a breeze sprang
 rom the northeast and made con-
 sfaoie improvement in the ice con-
 '0as Then we steered north In the
 ecuoh of the Solovei, and about
 m the evening, according to the
 position received from her by
 eess, We reckoned that we were
 hn about eight or ten minutes dis VI 1he 18th the weather cleared, and
 ns taken the necessary observa-
 as lh the morning and at noon we
 siued our voyage at D. m. At N s0ine time we received wireless
 % The position of the Solovei, ~ nn was considerably further north aA before.
 n'tle later we suddenly caught
 :" of the Russian icebreaker Kama
 aeamlng after us. She had had
 es sauVantage of the strong northeast
 - which had parted the ice. and
 ,a'S wait for the purpose of talk
 reservations had also helped her
 ,''ake us. On June r our wire
 saa picked up a call from the
 KY ss'm fo Inc Solovei. which con
 ~ iAA rumor we had heErd al