SHIPWRECK IN SOUTH SEAS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19889, 28 March 1930, Page 21

SHIPWRECK IN SOUTH SEAS.

-• V I TERRIBLE ECTERIEp<3jj& „ ,f * je, is SI LAND CRABS AND SE^f^ ■" . .. -j (nox otnt'o#* LQNDQy t ' A story cones from the <c press'* correspondentat B*r*y, terrible experience# of • W who were wrecked on » coral *M| i* a fierce storm, lie episode wwjjsjto- • cribed by Captain But Hastter, 'WT of the steamer Norwich-City. ■>. This vessel was bound from to Honolulu- Captain Hamer while the men were preparing to l||nirii the lifeboats by the glue of vivid(*|ppttning a great wave struek tW sweeping-him from the bridgt : *MfetW "I-Jhit the water and swam fifty yards clear he said. • "The tarnat- finW ''J—-through-the corf,' and landed mess At reef. I could cee the island dredyards away-wien dawn.tmln£«Ml I for if. I gave no ttnfhtlte the sharks, aiid I landed - safebV exhausted. -/' The erew thoaglu - aw drowned.. ,They left the ahip at dam. The lifeboats were throwninto the tremendous. surf and capsized- ,Jt ' ,»u then thaf the eleven. UK®Ja*t tWr lives. "The survivors r^aAcd abtj, eat and about the body, having <J»carded' their clothes in their for their, lives. The stewards Sir J. Jones,' of Penarth, eollapeed jast beftte he reached the shore. The ttew amazed to see me, and I heard mm ny; 'Good heavens, what la that' to me. Another replied, 'lt eanst lM the old man, he is lost.' - • "We were five daysoa the idaad^exposed to the wiild and weather. Qor rations consisted of one Ksewt eevetwi with corned beef, and half a tin of affi: and water adav.Hnge land erafce «ai rats entered our farop. and We Ihhl no sleep. *. /- * "

Hundreds of Utarfrn "There wese hundreds of sharks tft the lagoon and whenever we wrt'w" the shore the sharks congregate* «rwntd the spot as if they were krapflf ing to devour m, V "Tifo had a desperate off land crafts and rati, to sleep one night, and"• by a bite from s great enlL tifefgta had tried to sleep, bat after' venture we were content to' keep «aadw> until the'dawn. - 1 "At last," said Captain Haver, **m saw two ships approadung tie one from the north, and the otefisii the south. They were the XSwinpte,# London, and the Lineol*. EBswortk, •£ Oslo. - - "We saw them lowering Vwt*» uml in one of them there were 'jfiz; £QSec Island natives, which A dial »iMjratlw Allen, of Apia; had recruited. 1107 men of wonderful physique and kudbi a small surf boat in masterly faaUeatWe were rescued, three men at » tfasw,, in the snrf boat, and takes safely. to the Trongate, waiting the reef."