MASSACRES IN THE ISLANDS.
Received July 9, 9.11 p.m. Sydney, July 9. News has been received of the massacre of the crew of a French cutter at the New Hebrides, but no details have been obtained. There are also reports that the French cruiser Vaucluse visited the ' west coast of Mallicolo to avenge the murder? of the crew cf the cutter Lily which occurred last year. The natives made themselves scarce, but the cruiser destroyed their village and a number of pigs.
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Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11675, 10 July 1906, Page 3
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82MASSACRES IN THE ISLANDS. Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11675, 10 July 1906, Page 3
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