NEW JAPANESE DESTROYER
(Received November 2, 12.30 p.m.)
TOKIO, November 1
The navy has announced that a destroyer named the Tanikaze has been launched at Osaka.
ORDEAL AT SEA
SURVIVORS OF LOST
STEAMER
NASSAU, October 1
Robert George Tapscott. aged 19, of Cardiff, and Wilbert Roy Widdecombe, aged 24, of Newport, were down to Nassau from Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. They are survivors of the Anglo Saxon, sunk by a raider 500 miles south-west of the Azores on August 21.
They sailed 2500 miles in a 16-foot boat. They caught rainwater, but had no water for eight days and ate seaweed, one flying fish, and one garfish in 55 days. A farmer at Eleuthera saw them crawling along the beach. Originally there were seven in the boat, but two who were wounded when the raider machine-gunned the boats died, two jumped overboard, and one committed suicide. ____
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 108, 2 November 1940, Page 9
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