DISTINNGUISHED VOYAGERS
ALONE ON WIDE WIDE SEA FORLORN PARTY PICKED UP NOTED PORTUGUESE EXILES PLACED ON DUTCH VESSEL By Telegraph—Press Assn.——Copvrisrht. Rec. 12.30 a.m. Koepang, Feb. 18. Nine Portuguese revolutionaries, all high officials, who had escaped from an internment camp at Dilly in. a lifeboat, were met by an Australian schooner, the officers of which handed them over to the K.P.M. boat Vamriebeeck on the way to Java.
Among the nine Portuguese exiles were the ex-Colonial Minister of Portugal, a military captain, a police commissioner, a nephew of the present president of the Portuguese Republic, an aviator, a journalist and a navy captail. All w<re picked up at midnight drifting in a lifeboat in mid-sea. The Australian schooner Jewasunye rescued them. The exiles said they had been rowing for hours to get outside territorial waters. They were handed over to the Dutch steamer Vanriebeeck, the captain of which asked them to return to Timor Dilly, but they refused, and asked for protection of the Dutch flag, upon which the Dutch captain took them to the Sunda Isles. Upon their arrival at Kupang the authorities examined their identification papers, which were found to be correct.
The Vanriebeeck is expected at Java on February 25.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1932, Page 5
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