'A radio play by Frank Morgan, based on many versions, both official and unofficial, of the conflict between Ross and Alexandre Hare, for sovereignty of the islands where John Ross the fifth now resigns as hereditary governor. Hare was a governor of Borneo, who had to give up his position when the Dutch bought the island from Britain. Having any amount of money, he set himself, up on the Cocos-Keeling group of islands, with a harem of eighty-four dancing girls, and slaves and orchestra. Ross was appointed his trading partner, but Ross, being a monogamous, God-fearing Scot, soon quarrelled, and lived with his wife on an adjacent island. A curious situation arose, Ross performing the marriage ceremony for members of Hare's harem who escaped with sailors and swam across to Ross's island. It is a diverting tale of a little-known phase of history.'
Source:
'A.B.C. Competition Play No. 7', Kilmore Free Press, 4 July 1940, p.1.
Broadcast on Friday 5 July 1940.
