SMUGGLING SUSPECTED
BRISBANE, April 27. Captain Hang, of the German steamer Siar, reports that when he was off British New Guinea he saw a steamer of about 3000 tons lying near Ketava Island, and to the northward of the steamer were five large native sailing vessels. He shaped a course for the steamer to ask for Greenwich time, his chronometers being out, but the steamer wheeled around and went eastward at full speed. The sailing vessels also turned back. Captain Hang went after the steamer, but could not catch her, so he came to the conclusion that she was engaged ia smuggling operations, and mistook tha Siar for the Government steamer Merrie England. When the Siar was a considerable distance southward the steamer wheeled round and appeared to go back toward* Ketava Island.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2929, 4 May 1910, Page 19
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133SMUGGLING SUSPECTED Otago Witness, Issue 2929, 4 May 1910, Page 19
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