A FURIOUS VENDETTA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 October 1922, Page 8

A FURIOUS VENDETTA.

LIFE IN A CORSICAN yiLLAGE

BY CABLE- "BESS ASBOCIATION-COPYEIGBT Received Oct. 13, 9.40 a.m.. ROME, Oct. 12. A furious vendetta has raged intermittently for over a century between ■i&e Corsican families, PaolettL : and -Sarti, living in the village of Ollivese, near Ajaccio'. Seventy men, twenty women and several children have been ■killed during the last fifty years beJore a. peaceful settlement was brought v;*bout by the engagement of a sixteen- ': .year-old Paoletti (girl to a t^enty-year-:^W member oft the' Sarti f&mily. ' : It was discovered that the girl had flirted with other boys in ;fche village. A ' heated discussion reacted'in-did Sarti stabbing a Paoletti '£b death.': finally v "three more were killed and four severely wounded. The vendetta is now in full swing again, extending to the whote of '■', which is split into two factions.—-Aus.-^-N.Z. Cable -Assn. .. ; ••."'" .■;•'■' "■' _ ■ ;