DOUGLAS MAWSON TALE.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 250, 21 October 1924, Page 5

DOUGLAS MAWSON TALE.

ARE WOMEN WITH BLACKS? A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION. SEAPLANE SEARCH SUGGESTED (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (neeeived 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, October 20. Further information concerning the supposed survivors of the Douglas Mawson reveal that reports from the police state that Miss Cross, a missionary, accompanied by a quadroon girl arrived at Groote island from Roper River in September, 192:!. In April last, Miss Love went to the Island from tin* same locality, and in June, Mrs. Warren, wife of one of the missionaries, and her baby, arrived from Thursday Island. When these facts were compared with the native's tale, it was found to be tho same story, only a different version. Officials think it obvious that natives, who were frightened when they saw a white women for the first time, spread reports of what they had seen, and that the aboriginal boy made them refer to supposed survivors in order to suit himself. BRISBANE, October 20. A public meeting 'of Brisbane residents set up a committee to organise an expedition to search Arnheim Land for the alleged survivors. It was stated that a seaplane could reconnoitre twelve thousand miles in a month, at total thousand miles in a month, at a total