FIGHTING IN NEW HEBRIDES
BETWEEN NATIVE POLICE 'AND TRIBESMEN. Melbourne, January 18. Mr. Poynton, Acting-Minister of tho Navy, announced that in October, 1916, the conduct of the tribes in Malekula Island (in tho. New Hebrides) was eo threatening that tho Una took a contingent of native police from Rabaul, and,. joined by the French gunboat Kersamt, landed contingents ot sailors and police. Heavy , bush fighting was encountered. Tho Una. had only ono casualty, hut the native police lost more lihnn half their number. Again laet September the Fantome landed an expedition at Malua Bay, and mounted two maxims on a cliff, behind which hostile natives were in force. After half an hour's fighting tho sailors occupied the ridge from which the main resistance had come. There wore no casualties in the landing party.—Prose Aesn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 98, 20 January 1919, Page 5
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134FIGHTING IN NEW HEBRIDES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 98, 20 January 1919, Page 5
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