TOBI ISLAND SEAMEN.
CLAIMED BY GERMAN GOVERNMENT.
’BRITISH CAPTAIN REFUSES TO GIVE THEM UP.
United Press Association —Copyright
(Received June 4, 12.55 a.m.) BRISBANE, June 3
Captain Strachan, of the ketch Envy, who brought five Tobi Island seamen 'from New Guinea, in the course of -a lecture, announced that he, had told the Tobi boys aboard the Envy that they would have to he handed over to the Germans. The hoys refused to go. ’He did not recognise the Federal Government in this matter. It was an 'lmperial affair, and he only recognised ’the Admiral commanding the station. So long as he lived he would not hand 'the hoys over to the German Govern'ment.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2519, 4 June 1909, Page 5
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114TOBI ISLAND SEAMEN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2519, 4 June 1909, Page 5
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