MYSTERY CRAFT
LOCATED OFF COAST. ONLY FOR TROCHUS SHELL. STATEMENT BY CAPTAIN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received April 10, 11.0 a.m. BRISBANE, April 10. A representative of the ' Sydney Morning Herald, using a speedboat, located the Japanese vessel which had been reported off the Barrier Reef and which, on account of its elusiveness, had been generally called the “mystery sampan.” The craft was not a sampan, but a vessel of the clipper type.
The Japanese captain permitted the correspondent to go aboard and stated that lie had done nothing wrong, having come for trochus shell only, and if the police pursued him rather than surrender his vessel he would dynamite it without any concern for his life or the lives of the crew.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 111, 10 April 1934, Page 7
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