CANNIBALS AT MALAITA.
TWO NATIVE WOMEN ROASTED AND EATEN, United Press Association. Sydney, April 29. Island news states that a Goverumnet party visited the island of Malaila in search of a native murderer. In a fight, a native, but not the one wanted, was killed. The tribesmen thereupon decided to go on the warpath till they secured a white man’s head. They opened the proceedings by killing, roasting and eating two captured native women. A third captive’s fate is .unknown. A Government expedition has left to punish the cannibals.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 100, 30 April 1915, Page 3
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89CANNIBALS AT MALAITA. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 100, 30 April 1915, Page 3
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