SHORTAGE OF SUPPLIES
CALL FROM FRENCH SHIP PARIS EXPEDITION (Reed. Dec. 23, 9 a m.) PARIS, Dec. 21. With reference to the SOS call reported to have been made on Tuesday by the trawler lie .de Bourbon from the island of St. Paul, in the Indian Ocean, it now is learned that the vessel was not short of food, but in a plight as the • result of a shortage of other supplies.
A further wireless message from the trawler states that women and children were landed on an unnamed Indian Ocean island.
The leader of the expedition, M. Horn de Boar, apparently sold out his interests at Reunion Island before proceeding to St. Paul, because quarrels among the married couples had convinced him that it was impossible for them to live amicably at St. Paul.
St. Paul is a volcanic island in the South Indian Ocean and is attached to the Government of Madagascar by legislative decree. It has an area of two and three-quarter square miles, and the highest point is 862 ft, In 1929 there were 108 persons on the island.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19820, 23 December 1938, Page 5
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