DOUGLAS MAWSON SURVIVORS.
TWO "WOMEN ALIVE. ECHO OF A TRAGEDY. (Received 12 noon.) lIELBOCKNE, this day. Private advices received from Port Darwin state that the whereabouts of the two women who were missing from the Douglas Mawson has been discovered.Both are alive.—(A. and N.Z. Ca"ble.) It was supposed that the crew of the Douglas Mawson had been killed and eaten by aboriginals, but that they-had taken the women alive into the interior. The Federal Government dispatched a punitive' expedition, consisting of twenty fcushmen and black trackers, in a small boat in search.
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 210, 4 September 1924, Page 5
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