MARINES DESPATCHED
SERIOUS VIEW TAKEN IN HANDS OF MUTINEERS? (Australian P.A. — United Service) Reed. 9.5 a.m. CALCUTTA, Thursday. A party of Marines has been dispatched for Tricomalee, to embark on the fuel auxiliary-steamer Slavol. They have been instructed to proceed to the Jervis Bay and escort her to Colombo. The naval authorities at Colombo are taking a serious view of the situation, and there is much activity in t«e naval intelligence office. A later message from Colombo ®tates that all efforts to establish communication with the Jervis Bay failed. The agents here fear that the ship * entirely in the hands of the Mutineers.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 387, 22 June 1928, Page 1
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103MARINES DESPATCHED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 387, 22 June 1928, Page 1
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