A SEA MYSTERY
UNKNOWN CALL FOR HELP. (Australian Press Association). (Received this day at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 3. A sea mystery lies behind messages received in Sydney from Townsville radio station. Apparently some unknown vessel is in distress in Japanese or North Pacific waters, but no station has heen able to pick up the call letters giving the ship’s name. Yesterday Townsville heard an S.O.S. radioed three limes followed by the word distress. Although all Japanese and Malay coastal radio stations were audible nothing was heard of any distress Inulic being'worked by these stations.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1929, Page 5
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95A SEA MYSTERY Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1929, Page 5
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