Tb© steanter Isleworth, which was at Dunedin last, week, was one of the most successful contraband carriers of the vessels thafc embarked- on that business dur. ing the Russian-Japanese war. She carried high explosives and guns iu her holds over which cool woes spread. On her first trip to the East she steamed for ninety days without seeing land, and on that occasion she went round the Horn. None of her crew knew where she was bound for. She was engaged in the traffic for the best part of two years, and was only once stopped by a Russian ship of war. As her papers were made out for Hong Kong the Russians did not remove the hatches.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10727, 26 June 1906, Page 3
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