Fisherman Adrift Picked Up by British Ship Manila, July 26.
A story of amazing fortitude was arned on the arrival here to-day of the British vessel, Malayan Prince.
While 500 miles west of Midway Island on July 16, the ship picked up a Japanese fisherman, Yoshizo Adachi, who had been adrift alone in mid-
Pacific for nearly two months, It appears that Adachi, accompanied by another Japanese, set out irom Honolulu in a fishing boat, but the engine failed while they were in the mídHle of the ocean.
After drifting helplessly for d: Adachi lost his companion, who died of thirst and hunger. Adachi himself, however, was still alive, although in the last stages of exhaustion, when picked up.
At the sight of rescuers, the Japanese politely bowed three times and then collapsed. He had not eaten for many weeks apart from a few raw fish, and the only drinking water he had consisted of a few drops wher. it rained.—Reuter,
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