Utah County Democrat | 1908-11-24 | Page 5 | Lived Fifty-Five Days on Gum

Lived Fifty -five Days on Gum. I That and Mineral Water Sustained Japanese Stowaways. Port Townseiid. Wash. Living for 53 days on rho ing gum and drinking mineral wator. three Japanese stow uw.v8 woro fumd In tha lazarette of it-a l".r Louder Just previous to the t4..ure of the ship for the ,.!.;. d Kingdom with a cargo of nbe.il. Tho Lender left Liverpool for Puget Bound via Japan, leaving at Kobo, Japan, a large cargo of general gen-eral merchandise. It was wlillo the ship wns discharging cargo that the men slipped on boa id and secreted several cases of chewing sums and mineral water, and stowed themselves them-selves In tho hold, where they exist 1 ed nearly two months chewing the sweetened um. The captain says thut had he not found the men the ohancee are they would have been tuken back to Japan and thence to Liverpool. They had eaten nearly threo oaae of chewing chew-ing gum, Tho men will be tuken batik to Japan.