ORDEAL ON RAFT
BESET BY SHARKS IN TROPIC ' SEA,
' SINGAPORE, 10th February. "Never have I seen so many sharks at one time. They'were all round and under the raft waiting for one man to die and be thrown overboard," declared an office* of the _ Danish stoamer 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 be convicts escaped from a French settlement. They had been drifting for twenty days in a blazing sun without 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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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 13
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116ORDEAL ON RAFT Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 13
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