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ADVENTUROUS SWEDE’S REWARD
(Received 10 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Karl Hjelmstrom, the Swedish apprentice who deserted the barque C. B. Pedersen and embarked on a voyage through Torres Strait, intending to call to New Guinea in the captain’s bathtub with a sail rigged up, failed in a dictation test in French on Thursday Island. He was then charged with being a prohibited immigrant, and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, pending deportation.
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Northern Advocate, 27 July 1935, Page 10
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