AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23811, 18 May 1939, Page 11

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

CREW OF WRECKED LUGGER ARRIVAL AT DARWIN DARWIN, May 17. Exhausted after a nightmare voyage of 13 days in a leaking dinghy, during which they constantly faced death from drowning, sharks, and starvation, the four members of the crew of the wrecked lugger arrived at Darwin, After the lugger was wrecked the men were at the mercy of the tides. Eventually the dinghy was smashed to pieces on a rocky point near Point Charles. The men staggered into a peanut farm in a pitiable plight. A cablegram received on May 15 stated: A Darwin message states that the four men whose lugger v/as wrecked a fortnight ago on Horseshoe Reef, about 50 miles southwest of Darwin, are now at Point Charles, suffering seriously from the privations they endured. One is blinded by sand-blight. From the meagre details available it appears that the men were sailing the lugger from Broome to Darwin when it was wrecked. The men lost all their provisions, but made their way to Grose Island and eventually staggered into a farm near Point Charles. ROBBERY AT POST OFFICE BURGLARS USE EXPLOSIVES SYDNEY, May 17. (Received May 18, at 1 a.m.) While a gang of daring burglars blew a hole in a brick wall, which gave them access to the strongroom at the Botany Post Office early this morning four local residents secretly watched the operations, too terrified to leave their homes and notify the police owing to the fact that one member of the gang was patrolling the street. The burglars obtained cash, postal notes, and stamps worth £SO. Not one eye-witness had a telephone. ENTRY OF ALIENS REGULATIONS TO BE TIGHTENED CANBERRA, May 17. (Received May 18, at 1 a.m.) Action has been taken by the Commonwealth Government to tighten up the regulations governing the entry of alien migrants to Australia. Applicants for permits will be required to provide guarantees for compliance with industrial award conditions and will also be required to state whether they are of Jewish extraction.