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'A SOUTH SEA MSSTERt. Australian and N.2. Cable Assn. SAN FRANCISCO, May 17- , Captain Efdswag, of the barquentin© Alta. from Melbourne reports a South Sea mystery. He discovered unknown castaways on Flint Island in a Polynesian group, where he was blown by stQirms. He made a futile attempt to rescue them. In trying to reach tfee marooned people in a lifeboat, it c&p ! - sizdd in swift tides among treacherous reefs, and he was forced to sail away. Two days later the attention of the Alta's crew was attacked by: fifes on another island, on which several persons were discernible. Flint Island is far out of trade routes.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16822, 30 May 1919, Page 7
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108MAROONED. Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16822, 30 May 1919, Page 7
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