HELP FOR MAROONED SAILORS.
APPEAL BY UNITED STATES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (llcc. December 12, 11.10 p.m.) Now York, December 12. Tho 'United States Navy Department appeals to any ships likely to bo sailing in tho Southern Pacific to succour the eight American sailors who were marooned on Easter Island as tho result of tho abandonment oT the schooner El Dorado in June, 1913. Tho captain of tho schooner recently arrived iu San Francisco. A few days ago a cable message was received to the effect that the Union liner Moan.i had wnt a wireless message stating that eleven of tho crew of tho schooner Alvareilo (?), bound to Antofafjasta, wore marooned on Easter island. After abandoning the schooner the contain and several volunteers sailed the lifeboat to Papeete, leaving the others io await rescue.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1931, 13 December 1913, Page 5
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133HELP FOR MAROONED SAILORS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1931, 13 December 1913, Page 5
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