SEA MYSTERY.
MASS OF WRECK AOf
AHORHUNKS' STOJO
DARWIN, April I.—Aborigines at Blount Alexander, near Cadogan Bay, referring to wreckage which was found washed ashore, say : "Big fellow engine boat blew up on rocks on Mount Alexander, and broke to pieces dining last big blow.'' That would be early last veat.
There is no evidence! of any survivors. The blacks there are extremely treacherous, and murdered a .Japanese crew iasl year, and also a Malav crow some years
There is no actual evidence that the wreckage is that of the Douglas Mawson, but it must have been a similar ship. Full particulars of the wreckage have been given by two men who letnrned in a lugger from the Gulf of Carpen tana. They reported that for six miles along the coast there was a mass of wreckage at .Mount Alexander. They brought back two brass tanks and one large plank. which war- marked
"Cairns." The remains of lifeboats were strewn along the coast, with a quantity of ship's bridge timber, painted white. .Much of the wreckage, including heavy pieces of iron, was on rocks above high-water mark, and must have been blown there bv a heavy evclone.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16406, 12 April 1924, Page 5
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197SEA MYSTERY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16406, 12 April 1924, Page 5
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