ISLAND CASTAWAY
PROBABLY A NATIVE ULM THEORY DISCOUNTED CANBERRA, July 18 A cablegram was received by the Prime Minister's Department to-day from the Australian Consul-General at Papeete, Tahiti, in reply to a message sent by Mr. J. A. Lyons asking for news, of attempts to rescue the man reported to have been seen on Motu Iti Island, <3OO miles from Tahiti. The cablegram stated that a wireless message from the captain of the Port Darwin, who sighted the castaway, was communicated to the French authorities on June 27. The island was inhabited by a group of Tahitians and would bo visited by a concessionaire at the end of this month. It would appear, therefore, that the island is not uninhabited, as was thought when news of the supposed castaway was received. From Melbourne comes a report that the officers and seamen of the Port Darwin do not believe the person they saw was the lost Australian airman C. T. P. Ulm, whom it was first thought to have been. They think the man was probably a native who had been cast adrift from one of the adjacent islands.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22475, 20 July 1936, Page 10
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188ISLAND CASTAWAY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22475, 20 July 1936, Page 10
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