IMPROMPTU WEAPONS.
OCEAN ISLAND TROUBLE. ?j A RACIAL QUARREL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.)' , CHRISTCHURCH, this day. :! A graphic story of the fighting recently reported on Ocean Island be* tween Kanakas and Chinese was told by a resident of the island, who arrived here yesterday on the steamer CrosshilL The row beg"an on December 8. Both parties contrived weapons from bottles, stones and sticks, and made bombs from stolen explosives. At one time the position was serious and the white women on the island had to be removed. Then the warship arrived and the mobs were disarmed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 70, 24 March 1926, Page 6
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