CAPTIVE WHITE WOMEN.
0- ■■ — REFERFMCE IN PARLIAMENT. United Press Association. MELBOURNE, Sept. 19. In the Federal House of Representatives to-day Mr F. Anstey, actingLabour leader, moved ' the , adjournment as a protest against the Government's alleged delay in sending the relief expedition to rescue the women survivors of the Douglas Mawson wreck, who are believed to be held captive by the blacks. The Prime Minister, Mr S. M. Bruce, replied that everything had been done that was possible. Notwithstanding the mass of rumours the information received, boiled down, merely amounted to a statement made by one blaqk boy to another. In the Seriate the Minister for Home and Territories* Mr G. F. Pearce, in replying to a suggestion that aeroplanes should be sent to help in the search for the missing women, announced that the party which had gone to treat peaceably with the natives had returned to Elcho Island without finding a trace of the captive women. The, Minister said that the armed party was continuing the search throughout the country.
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16096, 20 September 1924, Page 5
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