MYSTERIOUS SHIP.
OFF AUSTRALIAN COAST,
ONLY YELLOW MEN ON BOARD. SECRET SURVEY SUGGESTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Rec. June 22, 11.10 p.m.) Perth, Juno 22. Some excitement has been caused at .Carnarvon by a report that a large onefunnelled steamer, painted ,groy, had anchored about the. end of May near the reefs between Maud's Landing and Capo Farquhar.
Rowing boats wero stated to bo working between the steamer and the shore,
Some blacks put off to the steamer and reported that only Chineso were aboard, and that there wero no white men ou the ship. . It is conjectured that tho steamer may have been a vessel prospecting for pearl shell.
Anothor suggestion is that as the blacks cannot tell Chineso from Japanese, tho mysterious vessfel might have been a Japanese warship secretly surveying the coast.
[llaud's Landing is an isolated spot on the West Australian coast, fifty miles distant from a post office, and sixty miles north of Carnarvon, which is itself nearly 500 miles north-west of Fremantle. The district is a purely pastoral one..]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 850, 23 June 1910, Page 7
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174MYSTERIOUS SHIP. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 850, 23 June 1910, Page 7
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