Show J Drifters S Save ve Water Supply At Gun Point American Unfolds Tale of Experience Experience Experience Ex Ex- Ex- Ex Aboard Wave- Wave Tossed Helpless Vessel MANILA P. P I. I Jan 5 A P tale of cowing 15 Chinese with I guns uns in order to preserve a dwindling water supply aboard a small motor vessel drifting helplessly helplessly help help- lessl lessly off oft the coast of Borneo was as told here today by Lawrence T T. K Griswold of oC Quincy Mass With William H H. Harkness Legrand Legrand Legrand Le- Le grand Griswold and Byron C C. C Tate of the expedition which he heads Griswold drifted for five live days on the Celebes sea ea in the disabled motor vessel before before belore be be- fore lore reaching land When the motor down four days das before Christmas the boat carried 26 persons including a Filipino crew and 15 Chinese passengers We had only 55 gallons of oC water wa wa- wa- wa ter Griswold said aid so I Ira ra rationed rationed ra- ra a single cup per pr man the first day and a hall half a cup thereafter The 15 Chinese passengers abo aboard rd armed themselves with axes and demanded more water But we cowed them by means of our revolvers They were quiet after alter that The foot 65 boat a former minelayer was swept by an eight- eight knot knotS current across cross the tropical sea With th th aid a of the current current current cur cur- rent a gasp gasping single cylinder and a makeshift sail the party part reached Borneo The Americans returned to Jolo Job P. P 1 I. aboard a Japanese fishing craft and made plans to start the trip all over again The orl original inal journey was intended to take them to the most distant outposts of the Moros fanatic Mohammedan tribesmen |