STORY ABOUT CANNIBALS
NEW YORK, Sept. 23. The Honolulu correspondent of tho New York Times sends on a story from an “advanced airfield on a South Pacific island” of how an American sergeant interrupted a cannibal feast to recruit native labour and help build an airfield.
Captain M. T. Ellajayga said, “The navy and marines, working together in the rush building of an airfield, needed native labour, but they could not get enough here, so we sent a sergeant to another island. When he reached a village there natives wearing a single wooden belt and coconuthusk loin cloth were just finishing a feast of which the main dish was 10 women who had been stolen from the chief of another tribe. It seems that tribe A. stole and ate the wife of the chief of tribe B.; therefore, tribe B. retaliated and stole the other chief’s 10 wives.
“When they had finished the meal the sergeant dickered with them. They agreed to come and help us for a certain period, because they had heard that others had received good treatment and wages from the Americans.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 254, 25 September 1942, Page 5
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