THE MALEKULA TRAGEDY.
CHASING THE MURDERERS. [BY EIJtOTkIOjTESLEOBAPK-rOOPfEIOHT] XtjNITKD PREBB ASSOCIATION.! (Received 10.5 a.m.) Sydney, May 9. The^acifiqiuj "5 has' brought news of the landing of a punitive expedition at Malekula by the French gunboat Kersaint to punish the Bignambus tribe for attacking the crew of the recruiting scl&oner Guadelope, when three of the crew were killed and eaten. , u • The arrival of the Kersaint created a panic, and the natives fled into the interior, leaving three of their sick behind. ;' » One who confessed he took part in the murders of the Guadelope men, was gaoled, but the rest of the tribe escaped into -the country, where it was too rough for the men of the Kersaint to follow.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 16, 9 May 1914, Page 6
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119THE MALEKULA TRAGEDY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 16, 9 May 1914, Page 6
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