TO THE RESCUE
OF WHITE WOMEN. IN BLACK MEN’S CLUTCHES. BLACK’S POSITIVE ASSURANCE. *SY GABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Oct. 20, 11.30 a.m. MELBOURNE, Oct.-20. Arrangements have been made for the vessel Jc.hn Alee to leave Darwin for Booroolcoia, conveying- mounted constables and two black trackers for the purpose of establishing a ponce station at Elcho Island, with the hope of collecting further . information regarding the women survivors of the Douglas Mawson.
•■- Darwin expedition has been fitted out tty citizens to search for the Douglas Mawson women, and will consist of several parties of experienced bushmen. -t proceeds overland to Arnheim Land with horses, and will scour the country horn many' different points. A blackfellow from Arnheim; who arrived at Darwin, emphatically states that when the Huddersfield police approached Caledon, blacks with white women embarked in canoes and landed on an island in the gulf. A Brisbane citizen offered to lend an aeroplane for the search. It is claimed that the Huddersfield expedition covered only about one-fourteenth of the area of Arenheim Land.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 October 1924, Page 5
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171TO THE RESCUE Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 October 1924, Page 5
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