IS IT A FACT?
Up North (says the latest Bulletin) they are telling weird and disquieting tales of how Japanese survey boats are making charts of the' Barrier Reef. Of course, it is not being done openly, and the boats engaged on the work are ostensibly beche-de-mer fishers. One Queenslander relates how he surprised a boat taking soundings, while an officer on deck was engaged in doing something with a large sheet of paper fastened to a drawing-board. Immediately the Queensland boat hove alongside, the sounding was suspended, and the drawing - board carefully covered up, while the Japs, suave as ever, gave the Queenslander the water he was short of. This boat was working south. A couple of days later he fell in with another boat of the same sort, working north, from which he concludes that the Japanese Admiralty’s survey of the Barrier Reef is just about complete.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 402, 25 June 1908, Page 2
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149IS IT A FACT? Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 402, 25 June 1908, Page 2
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