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REPORT FROM INTENDED STOWAWAY SAYS MEN WERE NOT ARMED [ Australian Press Assn. 1 Received June 24, 5.5 p.m. FREMANTLE June 23. Information given at Fremantle by a man who states he was to have i stowed away on the Jervis Bay is to the effect that there were to h- ? been 14 stowaways, but at the last moipent six of them became alarmed and did not go aboard. The eight who stowed away wore all migrants. The informant ridicules the idea that the men were armed, stating they did not have a cigarette or a match among them. STOWAWAYS PUT UNDER GUARD- ( Australian Press Assn. ’ Received Juno 25, 1.10 a.m. COLOMBO, June 24. The Naval Intelligence Office states that the Slavol met the Jervis Bay. An armed guard boarded the vef*el and the stowaways were put under ruard, with no trouble. Tho Suffolk will escort the Jervis Bay to Colombo and the vessels are expected at daylight on Monday.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20181, 25 June 1928, Page 7
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161SIX DEFECTIONS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20181, 25 June 1928, Page 7
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