ANOTHER MASSACRE AT THE NEW HEBRIDES.
FRENCH BARQUE'S CREW SLAIN
r PEB PRES9 ASSOCIATION.— COPTHWHT.]
SYDNEY, September 6.— A French steamer brings a report of another massacre in the New Hebrides. The French trading Guadalite drifted ashore recently at Espregle Bay on the island of IVlollicollo. .Soon after hordes of savages surrounded her and massacred the crew, consisting of the Captain (a Frenchman) and four or five natives. The savages looted the schooner.
The details of, the affair are meagre and it is possible that the members of the crew may have escaped into the bush.
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West Coast Times, 7 September 1909, Page 3
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96ANOTHER MASSACRE AT THE NEW HEBRIDES. West Coast Times, 7 September 1909, Page 3
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