ISLAND NEWS.
A SHOCKING TRAGEDY
Press' Association—Bv Telenraph-Gopyright SYDNEY, April U>.
News from German New Guinea reports u nrcsi: among Alio Admiralty Islanders. A Japanese named Kimmino, captain'of a trading schooner, together with .two native deck hands,, was massacred. There are no details, lhe islanders tire credited/ with being, cannibals and torturing the victims beloie killing them. ;. " -: ■. ; SWEPT BY CYCLONE. SYDNEY, April 10. News from tho New Hebrides slates that the recent cyclone came. ; pcross from Malokula, and passed between Epi xirfd Vato Islands. v Ambry n, Pentecost and Santo practically escaped. Fears are entertained for' the safety of the recruiting ketches Normandie and Dick. Engler.... ..Wreckage the latter has been recovered, . Four plantations and •many' places have been ruined.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13882, 20 April 1909, Page 5
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120ISLAND NEWS. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13882, 20 April 1909, Page 5
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