WHITE WOMEN
MISSIONARIES’ TRAVELS. DOUGLAS MAWSON SURVIVORS. CONTRADICTORY REPORTS; BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Oct. 21, 9.50 a.m. MELBOURNE, Oct. 21. Farther information concerning the supposed survivors of the Douglas Mawson shows that reports from the police state that Miss Cross, a missionary, accompanied by a quadroon girl, arrived at Groote Island from Roper River in September, 1923. In April last Miss Love went to the island from the same locality, and in June Mrs. Warren, wife -of a missionary, and a baby arrived from Thursday Island. When these facts were compared with the natives’ tale they were found to be the same story —only a different version. Officials think it is obvious that the natives, who were frightened when they saw white women for the first time, spread a report of what they had seen, and that an aboriginal boy made them refer to the supposed survivors in order to suit himself. BRISBANE, Oct. 21. A public meeting of Brisbane residents set up a committee to organise an expedition to search Arnheim-Land for survivors.* It was stated that a seaplane could reconnoitre 12,000 miles in a month, at a total cost of £2BO.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 October 1924, Page 5
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