CANOE VOYAGE
ADVENTUROUS ESCAPE FROM PHILIPPINES. MADE BY AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICERS. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, July 28. Five American naval officers who escaped from the Philippines sailed in a primitive native outrigger canoe from Cebu in the Philippines to northern Australian waters. The trip took them more than three months, from April 9 to July 18. They mapped their course with an alarm clock, a compass and a schoolboy’s atlas. On April 9, when Cebu was invaded, the five men, who had left Corregidor and Batan on a confidential mission, set sail in a 70ft. native outrigger. Their supplies consisted of 200 gallons of water and canned, food, which they supplemented with fish caught on the journey and cooked in a five-gallon oilcan. On July 10 they were picked up by a small trading vessel and eight days later they landed at an Australian port.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1942, Page 3
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145CANOE VOYAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1942, Page 3
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