DRANK HIS OWN BLOOD.
SOLE SURVIVOR OF WRECK. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 8. 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 7. The report of the loss of the German vessel Salama shows that the sole survivor was a fifteen-year-old cabin boy. He maintained fife by gnawing his hand and drinking his own blood. He was unconscious when rescued. He was lashed to wreckage, and thus escaped in a Baltic hur-ricane.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 January 1922, Page 5
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70DRANK HIS OWN BLOOD. Taranaki Daily News, 9 January 1922, Page 5
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