ISLAND TRAGEDIES.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY. August 5. ll'roeivod AujtuaL 5, at 8.45 a.m.l Advices from New Caledonia statu that a. family 'it' tlms> (father, mother, and child), named Devaux, ',vwe murdered at Voh. The bodies wt-ro terribly mutilated, and there in i;o clue to the perpetrator?. Another tragedy is reported from the island of Marwo. Two Frenchmen r.ainrd Gerolino and Balca were murdered by the rerraiu- of a. vessel, and their bodies The crew of the vessel were afterwards killed. Kidnapping is crivon as the cautw of the outrage, but the details of both crimes are meagre.
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Evening Star, Issue 14637, 5 August 1911, Page 5
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98ISLAND TRAGEDIES. Evening Star, Issue 14637, 5 August 1911, Page 5
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