THE NEW HEBRIDES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7, 13 May 1913, Page 6

THE NEW HEBRIDES.

o “ONLY SATISFACTORY WAY.” [By Electric Telegraph-—Copy right] [United Press Association, j (Received 10.0 ami.) Sydney, May 12. The Rev. Fred Patton, son pf the famous, pipneor missionary at New Hebrides, and himself a missionary there, declares there is only one satisfactory , way of solving the problem of controlr-of the Islands,, namely, by buying’out, the French interests. He estimates-,the cost at from £250,000 to £3(10,000.,' The expenditure should be- regarded- asr an insurance, since the group in its present- condition constitutes -a positive, menace to Australidi- < Japanese ,and Tonqfltnese are pouring, into New-Caledonia-, whence they Gdilld easily go to the New Hebrides. ■ H© suggests tha|i ; Australia and New Zealand should combine in the acquisition (|f ,fhj <■ ' a-