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Adventure in the Sunda Seas

Author (1907 - 1993)
Date8 September 1938
Object numberANMS0542[035]
NameNewspaper clipping
MediumInk on paper
Copyright© Australian National Maritime Museum
ClassificationsEphemera
Credit LineANMM Collection Nancy Jean Steele Bequest
DescriptionArticle written by Oskiar Speck recounting his attack at Lakor and with a photograph of him in hospital at Ambon. The article begins: "...A successful escape After a few minutes of tossing my body around I had managed to undo another twist and that was enough to pull one foot out of the tie. The next moment I was up on my feet. I staggered over to my boat hoping to find the knife in order to cut through the tie on my wrists. But the boat had been ransacked and the knife wasn’t there any more..."