Tulagi

Chinese Junk Intrigues

From Our Own Correspondent.

TULAGI, April 1.

COMMERCIAL vessels came to Tulagi in a rush during March. In addition, Lord Moyne in his yacht, a converted channel steamer, paid a brief visit to the port, afterwards leaving for Batavia, from whence he will fly to England. The “pas senger list” read like the social column of a London newspaper.

Then one morning recently Tulagi awoke to see, apparently, a Japanese sampan anchored boldly on the shoals between Bunana and the township. H.M.C.Y.

“Tulagi” went out to the supposed poacher and very shortly an interested population saw the stranger towed in to port. It turned out to be a Chinese junk, manned by two Frenchmen, on a world tour, and interested in proving certain theories re garding Pacific migration and population.

The unusual build and rig of the junk created much comment.

(See article and photograph on Page 58.)