TRAGEDY OF THE SEA.
FATE OF CREW OF FISHING BOAT EVIDENCE OF CANNIBALISM. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 1.55 p.m. to-day. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. A message from Fort Town,send, Washington, istarbes that; the Japanese fishing boat picked up in the Pacific has been identified as the liiyoyei Maru by documents more' than a year old. There is evidence of cannibalism, according to the United Staves quarantine officers, who state that a pile of bones of stfven or eight members of the crew was found, indicating that the last two survivors of the crew had devoured the bodies of their shipmates before sucsumbing to starvation. —A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 November 1927, Page 9
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106TRAGEDY OF THE SEA. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 November 1927, Page 9
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