Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-19 | Page 1 | Takes Ashmore Islands |

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Date	1906-01-19
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Takes Ashmore Islands
Type	article
Date	1906-01-19
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	1
OCR Text	Show TAKES ASHMORE ISLANDS Great Britain Annexes Moro Land to Australia. VICTORIA. B. C. Jan. IS. Tho steamer Moana, which arrived today from Australia, brought news of the annexation annexa-tion by Great Britain of the Ashmore islands, lying between Timor and Kings Hound. Australia. H. M. S. Cambrian went to the Isla.ids and hoisted tho British lag and saluted twenty-ono guns. Thore Is no sign of habitation or human life on the Islands. Five persons were, drowned as tho result re-sult of the steamor ICapunul sinking at Auckland after colliding with the Claymore. Clay-more. News from Noumea tells of sickening scenes at an execution of an Arab bv guillotine. Over a thousand spectator's were prese'nt and a guard of 150 French troops The executioner, a novice, bungled exceedingly, the execution lasting last-ing fourteen minutes und the knife decapitating de-capitating tho culprit after It had been dropped three times.
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