ESCAPE FROM PHILIPPINES
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) ' SYDNEY, July 28. Five American naval officers who escaped from the Philippines sailed in. a native 70ft outrigger canoe from Cebu to northern Australian waters.., The trip took them more than three months, from April 9to July 18. They;, mapped their course with an alarm \ clock, a compass, and a schoolboy's ' atlas. ■ .? Their supplies consisted of 200 gal- - lons of water and canned food, which they supplemented with fish caught on the journey and cooked in a five--; gallon oil-can! On July 10 they were; picked up by a small trading vessel : and eight days later they landed at ah, ; ■ Australian port. f
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1942, Page 5
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