MYSTERY OF SEA DRAMA

Chronicle (Levin), 30 October 1946, Page 6

MYSTERY OF SEA DRAMA

DETECTIVES APPOINTED TO MAKE INVESTIGATIONS Received Tuesdav, 11.45 p.m. SYDNEY, Oct. 29. The C.I.B. has appointed two detectives to make a tho rough investigation into the disappearance and destruction of the motor cruiser Nova on wliich three men are reported to have perished, says the Daily Mirror. Several aspects of the sea tragedy have puzzled the police and the appointment of two experienced investigators was decided on following a conferen.ee at police headquarters. There is no suggestion at this stage that the deteetives wilJ fly to Noumea to interview Jim Cush who is reported to be the sole survivor of the voyage. Points which will engage the deteetives ' attention are precisely where the bodies of thc three victims were buried, the detailed circumstances associated with the actual ioss of the Nova, how, if the vessel was headed for Sydney with a large stock of potroi aboard, it Avas so far oil its course that it could be swept 100U miles from Jerseyville in Macieay River tp thc Isle of Pines in the New Caledonia group, -and the exact circumstances in which Grant West, Erank Eulling and Erank Anderson met their deatlis. Cush, who is still a patient iu the ximericau Army Hospitai at Noumea, said all four wrote wills wheu the last hope of rescue aud survival seemed gone. "After they had been witiicsscd we put them along with war bonds in a bottle and then put the bottle iuside •the ship's lire extinguisher. We sealed this with red lead and cast it ovcrboard. I believe it may turn up ou the coast of New Zealand or Lord Howe Islaud, or may evsu be carried across to the American coast. It may take six inouths to. driiit ashore there or three years. ' ;