TREATED WITH DERISION
PATROL LAUNCH
THE LARRAKIA INCIDENT
(Received June 18, 10.45 a.m.)
DARWIN, This Day.
A surprising version of the arrest of Japanese pearling luggers by the patrol launch Larrakia was given today by Chris. Bell, an injured deckhand of the Larrakia, who was brought to, Darwin by air.
Bell declares that the captain of the Larrakia was ordered off the New Guinea Maru (the mother ship of - the pearling fleet), which then started its engines and steamed off. The big fleet of pearlers treated the Larrakia with derision when she sailed in amongst them at Baucaut Bay.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1937, Page 13
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99TREATED WITH DERISION Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1937, Page 13
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