ANXIOUS LIFE
LONELY WALLIS ISLAND. Sydney, June 25. Pour years of anxiety among 5000 fierce natives on lonely Wallis Island, midway between Samoa and Fiji, have just ended for a Sydney woman. She is Mrs. S. G. Jones, wife of a trading agent, and has returned to Sydney for a long holiday. "They are a treacherous lot and we never know when they may turn against us," she said. "There are only 13 whites on the island, and we often heard war drums beating as the natives engaged in wild intertribal fights. "Once they grew so threatening that the French Administrator "wirelessed for a warship. . It rushed to the island and put on an armed guard around the Administrator's building. That night as the Administrator, his wife and two small children slept, four armed savages evaded the guard and climbed through the window. The screams of the Administrator's wife brought the sailors in time to put the natives to flight. "When they drink kav-a the natives are always likely to get out of hand. Wallis Island is under French control, but there are no police and only a single official, so it is not a very placid place to live in."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4514, 3 July 1937, Page 6
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