WATCHED BY SHARKS
TERRIBLE ORDEAL ON RAFT. DRIFTED TWENTY DAYS. i United Association—By EH.erotrio Telegraph Copyright). SINGAPORE, Feb. 10. ■‘Never haA’-e I seen so many sharks at one time. They \A-ere all round and under the raft Avaiting for one man to die and be tliroAA’n oA’erboard,” declared an officer of the Danish steamer Boringia in describing the rescue of three Annamites found drifting in the open sea, a day from Bangkok to Singapore.
The men are believed to bo convicts escaped from a French settlement. They bad been drifting for 20 days in a blazing sun Avitliout food or water. One of their number had jumped overboard two days earlier, and this attracted the sharks. The men, terribly weak, were taken to hospital.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 13 February 1931, Page 5
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