WAS IT A WARSHIP?
EXCITEMENT IN WEST AUSTRALIA. June 22, 11.10 p.m. PERTH, June 22. Some excitement has been caused in Carnarvon by a report that a large one-funnelled steamer psinted grey anchored about the end of May near the reefs between Maud's Landing and Cape Farquhar. Rowing boats were observed working between the steamer and the Fhore. A number of blacks put off to the steamer and reported that they weTe all Chinamen aboard, and nn white m°n. It is conjectured that it may have been a vessel prospecting for pparl sh<?i!, and it is also suggested, as the blacks cnnnot tell Chinese from Japanese, that the mysterious vea.=el might have been a Japanese warship secretly surveying the coas*".
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10076, 23 June 1910, Page 5
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120WAS IT A WARSHIP? Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10076, 23 June 1910, Page 5
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