SEA MYSTERY
WRECK OF UNIDENTIFIED STEAMER. FOUND BY JAPANESE FISHERMEN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. SYDNEY, May 30. A sea mystery is reported from Brisbane of a wrecked steamer having been discovered by Japanese beche-de-mer fishermen on an unchartered reef 20 miles south-east of Willis Island, which is 300 miles east of Cairns. Shipping men do not know of a reef at the spot, and there has been no recent report of any Australian vessel missing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1939, Page 5
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74SEA MYSTERY Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1939, Page 5
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