ST. PAUL EXPEDITION
ARRIVAL AT MADAGASCAR
(Received December 22, 11.40 a.m.) PARIS, December 21.
The Governor of Madagascar has advised by wireless that the members of the expedition aboard the trawler lie de Bourbon have arrived from St. Paul, and have been supplied with the necessities they require.
A cablegram received from Paris yesterday stated that a wireless message had been received from the He de Bourbon at the island of St. PauJ stating that help was required by the members of a colonising expedition which left for St. Paul Last May to establish a lobster fishery. In addition to an outbreak of scurvy there was dissension among the members of the party and the trawler had run out of coal. A French warship was sent to the rescue.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19381222.2.80
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 150, 22 December 1938, Page 9
Word Count
129ST. PAUL EXPEDITION Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 150, 22 December 1938, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.