MYSTERY SHIP.
Reporter Locates Japanese Craft. CAPTAIN’S THREAT. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received April 10, 12.30 p.m.) BRISBANE, April 10. A representative of the “ Sydney Morning Herald,” using a speedboat, located a Japanese vessel which had been reported off the Barrier Reef, and which, on account of its elusiveness, has been generally called the “ mystery sampan.” The craft was not a sampan, but a vessel of the clipper type. The Japanese captain permitted the correspondent to go aboard, and stated that he had done nothing having come for trochus shell only. If the police pursued him, he said, rather than surrender his vessel he would dynamite it, without any concern for his life or the lives of his crew.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20276, 10 April 1934, Page 1
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