THE NEW HEBRIDES.
"A CRYING SCANDAL." [By Electric Telegraph —Copyright! [U aiBB Prims Amooiation.l London, July 3. The (Christian World deals with the New Hebrides in an article entitled, "A Crying Scandal." .After alleging' that women and children were openly recruited and kidnapped for immoral purposes, the article says the administration of justice is a farce, and that the Government is in possession of papers which it dare not publish because the bulk of the maladministration is French rather than English, and they are afraid of arousing French public opinion against England. The paper is hopeful that the present conference will remedy matters, but if not, the papers must be published and the consequences faced.
REPORTED DISCOVERY OF OIL.
In the House ' oF" * Mr George Lambert, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, in answer to a question, said he understood that deposits of oil shale had recentdy been round in certain islands in the New Hebrides, but no reports had been received respecting boring to test the extent of the field.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 62, 4 July 1914, Page 5
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170THE NEW HEBRIDES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 62, 4 July 1914, Page 5
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