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THE AMBRYN ERUPTION.

TREATMENT OF NATIVES. MISSIONARIES' STATEMENT. \Sy Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyrign* Received Friday, 8.5 p.m. Sydney, Friday. The Rev. McGowan, convenor of the Presbyterian Foreign Missions Committee, has made a lengthy official statement in reference to the rescue of natives during the Ambryn eruption. According to this, Dr Bowie and the party of missioners engaged in the rescue saw a number of natives on the French steamer La France's boat beckoning to them. When approached the boat they were, told the natives were being taken aboard tha La France, but were refused information as to where they were eoing. Several of the natives left the La France's boat and came aboard Dr Bowie's at his invitation. A French official and other Frenchmen then interfered and prevented others leaving and the captain of the vessel turned the hose on the missionaries' boat. The junior officers of the La France used bottles and rowlockß to drive the missionaries off. Dr Bowie warned the natives not to go aboard the La France. It is further alleged that the La France was never inside the danger zone.- and did not resiue a single native. Dr Bowie subsequently conferred with English and French resident commissioners, who jointly agreed that trie rescued natives in the missionaries' care should be allowed to return to th°ir friends, arid no more recruiting would be allowed at Port Sandwich wnere the refugees remained under police guard.

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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 637, 24 January 1914, Page 5

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THE AMBRYN ERUPTION. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 637, 24 January 1914, Page 5

THE AMBRYN ERUPTION. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 637, 24 January 1914, Page 5

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