CAPTIVE WOMEN A MYTH
HOW IT CAME TO GET ABOUT
MOVEMENT OF LADY MISSION- , ARIES.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIGHT.)
(Received 21st October, 10 a.m.)'
MELBOURNE, This Day.
Further information concerning the supposed survivors of the Mawson shows 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, 1923. In April last Miss Love went to the island from- the same locality, and in June- Mrs. Warren, a wife of one of the missionaries and her baby arrived from Thursday Island. When these facts are compared, it will be found that the natives' tale appears to be the same story,-only in a different version. The officials think it obvious that' the natives, who were frightened when they saw white women for the first time, spread the reports of what they had seen, and that an aboriginal boy made them refer to the supposed survivors in order to suit himself. .
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 97, 21 October 1924, Page 7
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