Starving Seamen Devour Shipmates
GRIM STORY OF DERELICT WITH the frozen bodies of two Japanese seamen found on a derelict ship in the North Pacific was found a pile of human bone's, indicating- that the last starving survivors of this grim tragedy of the sea devoured the bodies of their shipmates, before merciful death came at last to them also.
By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 12.5 p.m. VANCOUVER, Tues. A MESSAGE from Port Townsend, Washington, says that a Japanese fishing-boat picked up in the Pacific has been identified as the Iyoyei Maru, by documents more than a year old. Evidence of cannibalism was found aboard, according to United States quarantine officers, who state that a pile of the bones of seven or eight members of the crew was found, indi-
eating that the last tw*o survivors devoured the bodies of their shipmates before starvation finally caused their death. An earlier message from Seattle, Washington, said that the steamer Margaret Dollar picked up a fishing smack off Cape Flattery, Oregon. On board the craft were found the emaciated and frozen bodies of two Japanese. It was believed the fishing smack drifted across the Pacific. —A. and N 7.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 9
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