REPORTED CAPTIVES
AT CALEDON BAY. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) , SYDNEY, July 17. Thursday Island police have been informed by friendly Blacks that several white women are living in captivity with dangerous Caledon Bay natives, and the suspicion is strengthened that the women comprise the survivors of the steamer Douglas Mawson which foundered in the Gulf of Carpentaria a few years ago. The police have accordingly given the friendly natives pencils and paper to take to the women, on which they may write a message which will facilitate their rescue alive,
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1929, Page 5
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95REPORTED CAPTIVES Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1929, Page 5
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