Show RUff RELIEF VESSEL DISPATCHED 1 TO ARCTIC COLONY 1 Failure of One Soviet Ship to Reach W rangel Is Is- Is Island Island land Causes Anxiety MOSCOW Dec 29 United Unite I Press Press Tho Tho ice ice-eu Ice cutter LUke has salI sailed d from Odessa to Island In the Arctic ocean to bring relief to a colony established in that frozen outpost more than two years ago The soviet union became greatly alarmed about the safety i of f the colony after the failure of f the ship carrying food clothes and medicines to reach the island and recently The Litke will go through the Suez canal across the Red Bed sea and the Indian ocean up the eastern eastern east east- ern era coast of Asia reaching VladIvostok Vladivostok early next year As It will then still sun have a a. long Journey to negotiate through Bering Strait It will wUl not reach the colonists until spring Considerable criticism has bas been voiced here of the failure failure failure fail fail- ure which is laid to red tape and Inefficiency in the responsible sovIet soviet so- so vIet iet organizations The Tho Island group was vIsited only once in 1927 since Its establishment It was found then t 6 tb t be c In ill excellent condition only two wo persons persons persons-a a very old man and andi anda a i new-born new having baby having died There were at that time two sixty-two persons on the island island nIne nine Russians RussIans Russians Rus Rus- and three fifty-three and Of the sixty twenty- twenty five were men and thirty seven women women women wo wo- men fifteen members of the cOlOny colony colony col col- ony were children four of f them having been born on Island Two of these four tour were the offspring of Russian fathers and mothers The Ice cutter Litko Litke was built In 1909 1109 for tor an American millionaire for cruising In the waters of northern Canada It was bought toy by the tIle I czars czar's government gove in 1914 1014 |