OCEAN ISLAND TROUBLE
STORY OF DECEMBER BIOT.
(By Telegraph.—Presi Association.) Jm CHRISTCHURCH, 23rd March. A graphie story of fighting on Ocean Island between Kanakas and Chinese is told by a resident who arrived this morning on the steamer Crossbill. The row began on Bth December. Both parties forged weapons from bottles, stones, and sticks, and made, bombs from stolen explosives. At one time the position was serious, and the white women had to be : removed. Then a warship arrived, and the mobs were disarmed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 71, 24 March 1926, Page 6
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84OCEAN ISLAND TROUBLE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 71, 24 March 1926, Page 6
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