FATE OF CREW
KILLED BY BLACKS. TWO WOMEN HELD CAPTIVE. AN UNCONFIRMED STORY. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT DARWIN, July 18. An unconfirmed story of the fate of the crew and passengers of the missing Douglas Mawson was told by the crew of the ketch Maskee. They state that while at Cape Wilbur force a native informed a native member of the crew that the Douglas Mawson sank in a big storm, and that the crew and passengers, including two white women, landed, and the men were speared and buried on the lieacli by the blacks and the women taken captive. The native further stated that two white men later visited the blacks and, after taking a large sum of money which the blacks had taken from the stranded people after the killing, departed, telling the natives not to talk or there would be trouble.
Questioned in the House, the Premier (Mr S. M. Bruce) said that if the news were officially confirmed an expedition would be sent to endeavour to rescue the white women from their appalling fate.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 July 1924, Page 5
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