DROWNING SENSATIONS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13489, 8 June 1914, Page 3

DROWNING SENSATIONS.

Through the skidding of his motor car Mr. H. P.' Hunter, assistant superintendent of Chandu Ipoh, in the State of Perak, was thrown into the River Sungai. The car fell on his right leg. Mr Hunter struggled until too exhausted, .to free himself, and when a friend, Mr. Scrivener, of Kampitr, who had been motoring with him, and a Chinaman rescued him he was unconscious, which is not wonderful considering that the car was, in 10 feet of water. Describing his experience in the "Times of Malaya," Mr. Hunter says: __«At first I struggled furiously to release myself, but realising that it was no good I tried to stun myself by banging my head against the car. Even thai mercy was denied me. The feeling of suffocation was terrible, and I began to gulp in large quantities of water. Then a feeling that alljwas finished came over me, and I didinot feel very upset about it. -I seemefi to be floating away into space quite* gently and pleasantly, and when I felt the touch of a hand I was too far j^ne to realise what it meant or to derite any comfort from the fact. The nexti. I t remember is lying on my back oh the bank with Scrivener bending over m\."