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FATE OF WHITE WOMEN. FIRST SEARCH ENDS. NO TRACE OF CAPTIVES. By Telegraph—Press Ausn.—Copyright Received Sept. 19, 7.10 p.m. Melbourne, Sept. 19. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Anstey (acting-Labour Leader) moved the adjournment as a protest against the Government’s alleged delay in sending a relief expedition to rescue the Douglas Mawson women, who arc believed to be held captives, by blacks. The Premier (Mr. S. M. Bruce) replied that everything had been done, and notwithstanding the mass of rumours the information, boiled down, amounted to a statement by one black boy to another.
the motion was negativedIn the Senate Mr. Pearce, replying to the suggestion that an aeroplane should be sent to help in the search, announced that the party sent to treat peacably with the natives had returned to Elcho Island without finding any trace of the captive women. An armed party was continuing the search throughout the country.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1924, Page 5
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