LOSS OF A VESSEL AND CREW.
[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright" l (Per Press Association)
Sydxey, July 18. News from the Marshall Group states that a large number or cases of kerosene and the body of a man havfi been found on Bikar Island, indicating the wreck of a kerosene laden ship. Footprints of a woman and children were noticed ou the beach.
Received July 19. ?t 9.43 a.m.
Sydney, July 19. There is evidence that the crew of the vessel, wrecked at Birkar Island, subsisted on turtle and drank the blood of birds. The island is barren and uninhabited. The German authorities at Juluit sent a steamer, which searched every island at ■a place named Molotal. • Wreckage and a ship's boat was found. It is supposed all perished.
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Manawatu Standard, Issue 7059, 19 July 1901, Page 2
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