ADRIFT FOR 26 DAYS
Five
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1960,
Instalment four
are left alive.
and then ‘Land!'
Coming of the saving rain : We slay gulls
for
the food: Last white man in boat : I was determined not to die
All through the month of March 1942 a ship's lifeboat drifted across the Indian Ocean. In it were crowded survivors of the torpedoed steamer Rooseboom British soldiers, police, Dutch. Javanese, and three women.
Voe bundred and thirty-five people began the voyage, either in or elinging to the lifeboat. As the days went by, starved of food and scared by the sun, with but a few drops of water to heal their thirst, their mummbers began to dwindle
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meet a gunman
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How to stay alive.
to keep your loss
If he touches anything, keep
3-How to ensure thut the away from 1-do not spoil his
2-llow down.
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-What to do hold-up altogether,
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to avoid.
Angerprints, Notice especially banw he works. The polico know the methods of many tjoves and detail will mean a Jo to them later.
NUNMEN, says Holcomb, fall If you normally
caray' farge.
into three classes: amateurs as of money through the making their first try, profes- streets, vary the time and the sionals who know what they are rute every day. Avoid crowds. doing, and mental cases,
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are dangerous, the amateur Many hold-ups in business because he may shoot from sheer houses are at closing time. A nervousness, - the professional Kood plan is to arrange for the because he may not, wish to tako polico to telephone at closing any chances, the mental' case time each day for an "all clear" because he may kill for no ren. in a pre-arranged form of words, son at all.
Often a gunman will order Since the victim is not in- terested in motives but only in ice that ni
the victim to telephone the po- woll. The lenst preventing the guluman shooting
at all, his best course, says Hol variation from the agreed form comb, is to do just as he is told. of words will alert the polico
If the gunman says, "Put 'em that something is wrong.
up, put 'em up-ás high as you
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