Late edition
No. 9,451 { Registered
The Sydney Bulletin.
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transmission by post as a newspaper.
MYSTERY DERELICT FOUND AT SEA
Vigilant Arrives With Helpless Armed New Zealand Yacht in Tow. One Survivor and Dead
Man Found Aboard. Tale of Desperate Battle and Deaths at Sea. Rescued Seaman Refuses
Particulars of Strange Experience. Odd Idol Found in His Possession. Inquiry to Follow.
Howard Phillips
Docks Reporter
The Morrison Co.s
freighter Vigilant, bound
from Valparaiso, arrived
this morning at its wharf in
Darling Harbour, having in
tow the battled and disabled
but heavily armed steam yacht
Alert of Dunedin, N.Z., which
was sighted April 12th in S.
Latitude 34 21, W. Longitude
152 17, with one living and one
dead man aboard.
The Vigilant left Valparaiso
March 25th, and on April 2nd
was driven considerably south
of her course by exceptionally
heavy storms and monster
waves. On April 12th the
derelict was sighted; and
though apparently deserted,
was found upon boarding to
contain one survivor in a half-
delirious condition and one
man who had evidently been
dead for more than a week.
The living man was
clutching a horrible stone idol
of unknown origin, about foot
in height, regarding whose
nature authorities at Sydney
University, the Royal Society,
and the Museum in College
Street all profess complete
bafflement, and which the
survivor says he found in the
SUMMARY
The airship R33 was swept by
a gale from her moorings at
Fulham on Thursday, and driven
to sea. The young officer in
command decided to ride out the
gale rather than attempt to land
in Europe.
A member of a former French
Ministry says that the Japanese
Navy will dominate the Pacific in
three years. He states that close
attention is being given to aviation
by Japan, and that the Navy Air
Service has 500 machines.
The Prince of Wales was
enthusiastically welcomed on
the occasion of his visit to inland
districts in Nigeria.
Prince Chlchibu, the second son
of the Emperor of Japan, will
leave Tokio on May 28 on a visit
to England.
Mrs. Utz doubts if she will
be able to join the Australian
womens tennis team at
Wimbledon. She will not play in
America.
Sydney, Saturday April 18 1925 16 Pages. PRICE 1d.
cabin of the yacht, in a small bore an evil reputation along
carved shrine of common the waterfront, It was owned
pattern. by a curious group of half-
This man, after recovering castes whose frequent meetings
his senses, told an exceedingly and night trips to the woods
strange story of piracy attracted no little curiosity;
and slaughter. He is Gustaf and it had set sail in great
Johansen, a Norwegian of haste just after the storm and
some intelligence, and had earth tremors of March 1st.
been second mate of the two- Our Auckland correspondent
masted schooner Emma of gives the Emma and her crew
Auckland, which sailed for an excellent reputation, and
Callao February 20th with a Johansen is described as a
complement of eleven men. The sober and worthy man. The
Emma, he says, was delayed Admiralty will shortly institute
and thrown widely south of The Alert. an inquiry on the whole matter,
her course by the great storm at which every effort will be
of March 1st, and on March the savage crew on the yachts and six of the men somehow made to induce Johansen to
22nd, in S. Latitude 49 51 W. deck, and being forced to kill died ashore, though Johansen speak more freely than he has
Longitude 128 34, encountered them all, the number being is queerly reticent about this done hitherto.
the Alert, manned by a queer slightly superior, because of part of his story, and speaks
and evil-looking crew of their particularly abhorrent only of their falling into a rock LATEST FICTION.
Kanakas and half-castes. and desperate though rather chasm. Later, it seems, he and
Copy. Posted.
Being ordered peremptorily clumsy mode of fighting. one companion boarded the Darlinghurst Nights (P. Amata) . . . . . . . 5/8 5/11
to turn back, Capt. Collins Three of the Emmas yacht and tried to manage Empty Hands (Arthur Stringer) . . . . . . 5/0 5/3
The Way Home (H.H. Richardson) . . . . 6/6 6/11
refused; whereupon the strange men, including Capt. Collins her, but were beaten about by
Out of Time (Sapper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/8 6/11
crew began to fire savagely and First Mate Green, were the storm of April 2nd, From The Hill of Dreams (Arthur Machen) . . 6/8 6/11
and without warning upon killed; and the remaining eight that time till his rescue on
The Land that Time Forgot (Burroughs) 6/8 6/11
The Flood That Does Not Flow (Carn) . 6/8 6/11
the schooner with a peculiarly under Second Mate Johansen the 12th the man remembers Sailors Wives (Warner Fabian) . . . . . . . 8/8 8/11
heavy battery of brass cannon proceeded to navigate the little, and he does not even Death Stalks the Streets (Goodchild) . . . 6/6 6/11
The White Monkey (Galsworthy) . . . . . . 6/6 6/11
forming part of the yachts captured yacht, going ahead in recall when William Briden,
Weird Tales (Various) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/0 2/6
equipment. The Emmas men their original direction to see if his companion, died. Bridens The Turn of Midnight Waters
shewed fight, says the survivor, any reason for their ordering death reveals no apparent
(Hughes). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5/8 5/11
and though the schooner began back had existed. The next cause, and was probably due to Available to Subscribers Castlereagh Circulating
to sink from shots beneath the day, it appears, they raised excitement or exposure. Cable Library; and on Sale at
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water-line they managed to and landed on a small island, advices from Dunedin report
Castlereagh and Market streets, Sydney.
heave alongside their enemy although none is known to that the Alert was well known
and board her, grappling with exist in that part of the ocean; there as an island trader, and
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