NEW HEBRIDES TRAGEDY.
NATIVE GREW MASSACRED. REVOLTING DETAILS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT.] (Received July 25, 9.50 p.m.) NEW HEBRIDES, July 25. Advices from the New Hebrides state that Nicholas, a French trader, sent a boat’s crew of three natives to buy yams, but the Malekula bush tribes shot the three of them dead, and hacked their bodies to pieces, hoisting their heads and limbs on poles, with which they paraded the beach.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3279, 26 July 1911, Page 5
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71NEW HEBRIDES TRAGEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3279, 26 July 1911, Page 5
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