| Summary: | American Sailors, Seized By Reds, Capture Guards And Flee Siveria: Crew Of Trading Schooner Land At Nome, Alaska, With Former Captors Their Prisoners. American Sailors, Seized by Reds, Capture Guards and Flee Sioeria Crew of Trading Schooner Land at Nome, Alaska, With Former Captors Their Prisoners NOME, Alaska, July 27 (JP)—Officers and crew of the American trading schooner Iskum of Tacoma, Wash., were being congratulated here today on having freed themselves from the custody of the Soviet Government of Russia. Owners of the craft had been informed that trade with Russian countries was carried on at the risk of the trader, and that, therefore, the American State Department could do nothing to help. In that dilemma the men of the Iskum seized Soviet guards placed, aboard their vessel to keep the craft in Siberian waters, put the custodians in irons, and escaped from Anadyr and crossed the Bering Sea to Nome. Today the Iskum, which belongs to the Phoenix Northern Trading Com pany of Tacoma. is tying here and the erstwhile guards are in the custodv of American authorities. The Hudson Bay Company's trading vessel Bay Cbimo aided in the escape of the Iskum. Ordered to prevent the Iskum from getting away, the Bay Chimo ran aground. Though the Soviet authorities had been reported friendly to the Hudson Bay Company and inimical to the Americans, it was said that someone aboard the Bay Chimo had put her steering gear out of The Iskum was one of four American schooners that the Soviet authorities at. East Cape, Siberia, ordered held on charges of violating Russian trading laws.
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