Months

Lost At Sea For Two

Marshall Islanders Drift to Nauru

THE 40-tons Japanese schooner Regina arrived at Nauru Island, in Central Pacific, early in September, after having been drifting in distress since July 7.

With one Japanese and 22 natives, in cluding three women and four children, on board, the schooner set out from one of the Marshall Islands on a 12 hours’ sail to a neighbouring Island, but missed its objective and became hopelessly lost.

When their food and water eventually became exhausted, those on board had to depend on passing showers for water, and their sighting of Nauru was providential, as they were suffering intensely from thirst and starvation.

Officials of the Nauru administration took all the people ashore, and are nurs ing the sick, one of whom, an elderly man, was in a critical condition.