GIRL STOWAWAYS
POSED AS CREW MEMBERS DRUNKENNESS FEIGNED SYDNEY, April 27. Three Sydney girls dressed as men and posed as drunken sailors to get aboard the United States freighter Ephraim Bevard in Sydney on April 12. Radio messages from the ship’s captain state that the girls will be put ashore at Balboa and kept there under custody until the United States authorities can return them to Australia by the first ship leaving the Canal Zone tor Sydney. A girl who works in a Sydney boardinghouse said that two of the girls, both under 21, became engaged to members of the ship’s company. They wanted a double wedding, but their parents did not reply to urgent telegrams requesting their consent. With the help of their American fiances, the girls, with another aged 22, dressed in men’s clothes and United States Army raincoats, staggered aboard just before sailing time as if they were drunken crew members returning to duty. ______
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22316, 29 April 1947, Page 5
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