CAPTAIN WILSON CLARIFIES.

The Advertiser, Adelaide, Saturday 20 April, 1912.

THE LOST KOOMBANA.

CAPTAIN OF THE MONTORO LINER

INTERVIEWED

Brisbane, April 19. 

The Burns-Philp steamer Montoro, from

Singapore, arrived to-day. Captain Wilson 

was questioned regarding a wireless

message which the Montoro was supposed

to have received from the Koombana, and

which ended in a blur. He expressed 

astonishment at the statement. It was true

the Montoro was in communication with

the Koombana on the day previous to that

on which she was supposed to have been

lost. The Koombana was speaking to another 

vessel at the time (the German steamer), 

and there was nothing in the message to 

indicate that she was in any trouble. The 

Montoro experienced the storm in which 

the Koombana was lost. When approaching 

Darwin the weather was so boisterous that 

on reaching Cape Don he turned his ship 

round and stood out into the open sea. Captain

Wilson pointed out the necessity of a light
being placed on that Cape.

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So, there was no last desperate call for help from the Koombana. 

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