ISLAND CASTAWAY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 201, 15 July 1936, Page 9

ISLAND CASTAWAY

> <j SIGHTED NEAR TAHITI M i MAY BE CHARLES XJLM. WIFE’S HOPES RAISED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received .Tidy If). 11 a.in. SYDNEY, July 15. The Daily Teleg aph says the possibility that Mr C. T. P. Uhn is a castaway on the uninhabited island of Motu Iti, in the Pacific, is’ suggested to Mrs Ulm by the report of the captain ol' the Port Danvin that ho sighted a castaway on the island. Motu Iti is 300 miles from Tahiti. The ship was off the usual course of shipping and near islands visited, bv ships only about once every eighteeu months The captain of the Port Darwin, upon arrival at Brisbane last week, stated that he saw smoke, coining from the island and through his glasses saw a. man waving his arms and piling brushwood on a fire. The weather was too unfavourable to lower a boat or take tlui ship closer to the island, so lie sent a wireless message to the Governor of Tahiti. The message was acknowledged. Mrs Uhn stated that she has given a great deal of thought to the report Bfe and intends seeing her business advisers tn-day to see if anything can be done to rescue the castaway, for she feeds that he may l>e her husband, who, in December, 1934, was forced down in the Pacific with his two companions while on a iligbt from the United Stales to Honolulu.