WWI soldiers' messages in a bottle found on Australian beach more than 100 years later
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia’s coast. The Brown family found the Schweppes-brand bottle just above the waterline at Wharton Beach near Esperance in Western Australia state on Oct. 9, Deb Brown said on Tuesday. Her husband Peter and daughter Felicity made the find during one of the family’s regular quad...
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