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THE DOUGLAS MAWSON WOMEN. FURTHER INFORMATION. tfy Telegraph—Press Assn.—UopyrtgM. Brisbane. Sept. 16. A report from Captain Wilkins, who is leading a private party in an attempt to rescue the Mawson survivors, states that he questioned the natives at Cunningham Island, who said they had heard of two white women who were now on the mainland. One of them and a white girl child were now living in the (itnip of a man named Bokhara- The other was held by a man named Majara. The natives said the women had made an'attempt to get in touch with a passing vessel last year, but their (nptors threatened to spear them if they made a further effort.
Constable Green, now at Katherine, states that he searched the Gulf of Carpentaria for wreckage of the Mawson last year, and collected information from the natives, which included a reference to two women survivors from the wreck, who were then with the blacks. This information was reported to private official circles, but without further result or real investigation it was thought by the people concerned to be false, and no action was taken.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1924, Page 6
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190HELD BY BLACKS. Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1924, Page 6
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