CAUGHT BY WATERSPOUT.
KETCH SUNK OFF COAST °F PAPUA. CHEW OF NINE NATIVES DROWNED. WHITE MAN SOLE SURVIVOR. o n SYDNEY, July 3. Swallowed up ; by a waterspout off the Papuan coast recently, the crew of the ketch Lytton perished, excepting a. white man, who swam five miles to the shore. The tragedy was described by Mr. S. Brown who, when he arrived in Sydney on the motor vessel Maehni said that the Lytton was five miles from the coast fishing, with Mr. Bruce Hamilton w charge of a crew of nine natives. Without warning, the vessel was grip ped in a waterspout and swept below the surface. The natives, although they were good swimmers, were so terrorstricken that they made no attempt to save themselves, and all were drowned. Mr. Hamilton reached the shore after BWim
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Wairarapa Age, 4 July 1936, Page 5
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