LOST SCHOONER
JREIV TORTURED BY SCURVY AND STARVATION
[Per United -’ress Association.]
AUCKL.: ND, September 30. With her ertw of 22 Marshall landers . verging on ;ollapst from arvation and thirst and tortured by he ravages of scurvy, a Japanese jchooner, which hud lost her position tnd had been vainly sailing in the equatorial region for nearly eight veeks in search of land, reached Nauru Island on September 6 The schooner, which is named the Regina, set out from Kwajalong, an island in the Marshall group, /or the neighbouring island of Wattho. She missed her destination, tried to find another island ocarby, but missed that also, and then sailed on Jay after day with food and water rapidly dimimshng and her crew desperately letting a course by their only navigating instrument, a compass. One of the islanders, in order to try and save his two adopted children, refused to eat or drink his rations. He probably saved the clnlchen’s lives, hut he died soon after arriving at Nauru. A Japanese company is going to send a steamer to Nauru Island to tow the Regina back to her home port.
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Evening Star, Issue 22458, 1 October 1936, Page 2
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188LOST SCHOONER Evening Star, Issue 22458, 1 October 1936, Page 2
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