OCEAN-GOING JUNK
VOYAGE FROM CHINA TO LONDON BRITISH OFFICIAL’S PLAN LONDON, Tuesday. Mr. L. J. Stevenson, of Jersey, an official ot the Indo-China Steamship Company, has written to his parents, stating that he will leave Swatow in March in his own junk, with two companions, on an attempt to sail to London. via Borneo, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and the Panama Canal. They will take meteorological observations on behalf of the British and American Governments, and will try to locate several inlands seen several years ago by passing vessels, but at present not charted. Mr. Stevenson expects that the voyage of 25,000 miles will last for two years.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 902, 20 February 1930, Page 11
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109OCEAN-GOING JUNK Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 902, 20 February 1930, Page 11
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