PROTECTION SOUGHT.
AGAINST JAPANESE INTRUDERSISLANDS IN TORRES STRAIT. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. W. Turnbull (lessee of Hicks Island,, near Thursday Island) declares hat a Japanese sampan used his island as a depot for crude oil supplies, and that Japanese stole some of his property. He has requested the Minister of Customs to obtain protection for a man named Charles Peters, who is employed by him on Haggerston Island, three miles from Hicks Island. Residents of the island, he says, will have to use firearms if they are not protected. DUTCH RELEASE TWO PEARLERS ' (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) TOKIO, April 17. The foreign spokesman said that as a result of the Japanese Consul’s etforts the Dutch had, released the two Japanese pearlers impounded in Ambon Bay, Papua, but several others are still impounded.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 159, 18 April 1936, Page 5
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