Lost ‘Monique’
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Wreckage From The
UNTIL the end of September, the total absence of any wreckage from the inter-island vessel Monique (which disappeared com pletely between the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia on July 31) had given rise to some strange theories. One was that the vessel had been captured by some of her passengers, and taken abroad.
There were suspicions that the ship had been wrongly loaded, and had turned turtle and sank; but absence of any flotsam was puzzling.
However, in the first days of Oc tober it was reported that searchers had picked up a number of articles which apparently had been aboard the ship when she disappeared, and which had been cast up by the sea.