STRANDED IN NEW GUINEA
(Received Aug. 28, 10.30 a.m ) rru t j SYDNEY, Aug. 28. £50,000, and the Chamber of Commerce war food fund £18,000 In-a. letter, Mr Mark Foy, a Sydney merchant, states that he left Sydney |in the German steamer Coblenz on U\ 2? t? T Hongkong. When they. reached German New Guinea they heard that war had been declared, and tne Loblenz landed her passengers and left hurriedly for a neutral port The passengers were stranded and chartered a cutter in order to reach a port and get a steamer for China. The cutter was wrecked, but those on board were picked up and taken to Yap ■Laroline Islands, where they now are MELBOURNE, Aug. 28 ' Mr Sydney Kidman, the cattle king, has offered Senator Millen (Minister of uelence) two hundred horses or £4000.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 28 August 1914, Page 5
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137STRANDED IN NEW GUINEA Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 28 August 1914, Page 5
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