STOWAWAYS NEARLY DEAD
TRAPPED IN HOLD
NEW YORK. Aug
Ten Brazilian stowaways wlio ‘nine dose to death when tl.e freighter A vunioca was fumigated, are being held at i-illis Island' awaiting deportatu, , I,y immigration ■ authorities. Tin. men were discovered on Saturday and. after they were revived by
artificial respiration. immigration authorities pressed a seaich lot a member of the vessel who has said to have fed the stowaways during the 213-day trip from Rio de Janeiro. The stowaways hid in the false bot-
tom of the ship. After the Ayuruoea docked and its cargo of coffee had been unloaded, Dr. John Essex. of the United States Public Healtii Service and six men. Wearing gas masks, went aboaid to make a routine fumigation.
They were fumigating the hold when they heard a frantic tapping from under the floor of the engine room. Opening a trap door to the bottom of the ship between the hold and the keel, they found the 10 stowaways, partly overcome.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 254, 3 November 1939, Page 3
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164STOWAWAYS NEARLY DEAD Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 254, 3 November 1939, Page 3
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