MASSACRE OF 1,000 WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
Auckland, Wednesday, News via Fiji record* a terrible massacre at Line Islands. The London Missionary Society had established a station there, under a Sandwich Islander named Kabul. The natives at the southern part of the island became dissatisfied with the missionary demand for copra, and apostatised. Kabul preached a crusade against the heretics, and arming his followers attacked the defenceless people. The carnage was incredible. A thousand women and children were ruthlessly massacred, and atrocities committed on the bodies, which were cron piled on the beach, combustible material placed over them, and which Kabul fired with his own hands. Kabul has since been taken to Honolulu to answer for his crime.
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Patea Mail, 2 June 1881, Page 3
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