Report That Japanese

Stole Trochus Shell

IT was reported from Rabaul (New Guinea) on December 11: Landing on the Cartaret Islands, where the schooner Dawaun was wrecked, Japanese from a big sampan took off 11 bags of trochus shell, part of the Dawaun’s cargo, at the point of a revolver.

This report was made by the native chief to Captain Parry, of the inter-island vessel John Bolton, who has just visited the Cartaret group.

Mr. J. B. Ssdgers, of Messrs. W. R.

Carpenter and Co. Ltd., Salamaua, arrived in Sydney from New Guinea by the December Neptuna.