THE PARISIANA'S CREW.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 5

THE PARISIANA'S CREW.

\_ » TREATMENT ON LANDING. fßy Telcgraph-Pro6s Association-Copyright Perth, January 26. It is alleged that through tho neglect ' cf a civil servant the crew of. the Paridana—who were rescued by. the steamer British Transport at St. Paul's Island after tho burning of their vessel had to travel twenty-four hours by train from Albany to Perth without food. They had no money. Tho Government directed that they shuld be fed, but an officer neglected to telegraph instructions. The Premier (Mr. Frank Wilson) decided to draw the attention of tho French to the fact that the store of (provisions at St. Paul's Island, where the crew landed, had not Wn renewed for eighteen years. The biscuits were mouldy lend unfit to eat. The provision depot on St. Paul Island Js in a hut of rough stones with a thatched roof, and was stated by the "Nautical Almanac" to contain 13501b. of preserved beef in boxes of 91b., 11251b. of biscuits, ten woollen shirts, ten blankets, and one Eoldered metal box containing four packets of matches. The provisions and clothes were in thirteen iron-hooped barrels coated with tar and sand and placed under a tarpaulin. The depot was set tip and provisioned by tho French warship Eure in 1893. Tho island belongs • to France. j