TROCHUS SHELL WATERS
OPERATIONS OF JAPANESE SAMPANS MOVE TO CHECK OPEN INTRUSION Pres* Alaociatioß—By Telegraph—Copyright!. SYDNEY, April 1. (Received April 1, at 2 p.m.) Captain S. L. Diamond, a shipping master of Torres Strait, commenting upon the Commonwealth Government’s decision to use speedboats to check Japanese sampans from operating in the trochus shell areas of the Barrier Reef, said that he had seen scores of sampans at work during the past eighteen months." Sometimes they operated openly in areas where Australians wei# working.
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Evening Star, Issue 21993, 1 April 1935, Page 8
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