NO TRACE.
DOUGLAS MAWSON WOMEN
ARMED PARTY CONTINUING
SEARCH.
.'lusrsiLiA:; a.vd >r.-. cabix Assu::i..:ce:.; (ST CA2i2—rssss JLSSOCIATICS—COPVSIGHT '.Received September If'th, 7.-10 p.m.) MELBOURNE. September 19. lr. T.he Ho-aso of Represent;*:.;ves Mr Acstov (Actir.g Labour Leader": moved the adjournment as a protest again; t the C-overnmeni's alleged uelav in sending a relief expedition to rescue the Douglas Mawson Eas&ongers believed to le held captive by the Blacks. Mr Bruce replied that everything had been done and, net withstanding a mass C'i rumours, the information. boiled down, amounted to a statement by on? Black boy to another. The motion was negatived. In the Senate, Senator Pearee, replying to a suggestion that aeroplanes be sent to help in the search, announced that the party sent to treat peaceably with the natives had returned to Elcho Island without ilnding any trace of the captive women. An armed party rcns continuing the search throughout the countryside.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18183, 20 September 1924, Page 15
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