FATE OF A CREW.
A DISCREDITED STORY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received July 19, 10.10 a.m. BRISBANE, July 19. \V hile the Queensland authorities generally seem seriously to disbelieve the Douglas Mawson story, immediate steps, will lie taken to obtain the fullest information from the Darwin police. It is pointed out in official circles that, a most careful search was made, of the gulf waters by the State without avail, and only recently the police from Darwin traversed the coast in the vicinity following a. discovery of wreckage. One State authority says that many of these aboriginals had worked on stations and were generally friendly; He considered it impossible such murders could have been committed and women fiucluct-Gtl \\ ithont tidings lonUinp 1 out in a few weeks instead of fifteen months.—-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 July 1924, Page 7
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