THE NEW HEBRIDES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1987, 18 February 1914, Page 7

THE NEW HEBRIDES.

• 'ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT OF %, NATIVES. . By Telegraph-Press A«eooW.tt<m-OojjrrisW Sydney, February 17. ■•Tho Association for tlio Protection of Native Races discussed 'tho alleged illtreatment of natives in the New Hebrides, and decided to bring the circumstances under the. notice of tho Admiral of ■ the Australian Fleet,, the Federal Minister for External Affairs, tho High Commissioner of tho Western Pacific, and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, with a view to preventing such abuses of justice as are alleged to have occurred at a sitting of a joint naval commission hold nt Villa in December last, Representations concerning ill-treatment of natives and miscarriages of justico iu the New Hebrides were made to the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales last week by Islands residents. A copy of Uie correspondence wns furnished (<> +hn Association, for the Protection ;sf Native luic.es for consideratien. It is alleged that no witnesses for the defence in chnrnes against nntiv«s is ever henrd; (In•accused aro not allowed to bo defenderl by 'counsel and are unable to defend them►•lilvps owing to Inn.?Uiigt? diffirmitie. , : Sworn tastimonj , is given "of "third docrpo" mothml* vhich. if correct, wpwld cause an' outcry evea ta Cisina or Eusiia, i