CASTAWAY IN PACIFIC
SHIP'S STORY DOUBTED ISLAND FOUND INHABITED [Red. July 18,.n00n.) CANBERRA, July 18. A cablegram has been received by the Prime Minister's Department from the Consul-General at Papeete in reply to the message sent by the Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, asking for news of attempts to rescue the man reported to have been seen on Motu Iti island in the-. Pacific, and who it was thought may have been Mr. C. T. P. Ulm. The cable states that the wireless message from the captain of the Port Darwin was communicated to the French authorities on June 27. The island was inhabited by a group of Tahitians and would be visited by a concessionaire at the end of this month. It would appear, therefore, that the island is not uninhabited as was thought when the news of the castaway was received, . .■ • - " ■■■ . A Melbourne message says that the officers and seamen' of the Port Darwin do not believe the person they saw was Mr. Ulm. They think the man was probably a native who had been cast adrift from one of the adjoining islands.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19070, 18 July 1936, Page 5
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186CASTAWAY IN PACIFIC Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19070, 18 July 1936, Page 5
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