ISLAND NEWS.
MORE MURDERS. (Received 5, S.-i 5 a.m.) Sydney, August 5
Advices from New Caledonia state that a family of three—father, mother, and child, named Devaux—w ;re murdered at Voh.
Tire bodies were terribly mutilated. There is no cine to tho perpetrators. Another tragedy is reported from the Island of Malwo. Two Frenchmen having been murdered by the recruits of a vessel, and toe bod'cs eaten. Tire crew of tho vessel was afterwards killed. Kidnapping is given as tho carrsc of the outrage. Details of both crimes meagre.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 140, 5 August 1911, Page 5
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89ISLAND NEWS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 140, 5 August 1911, Page 5
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