Ambrym Disaster

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 77, 26 January 1914, Page 5

Ambrym Disaster

I UK. I:O\VIK\S STUKV I;ICKI;TKI>. Tiltf l--IlKXl.ll VKKSIUX. By Ca!)I«? Press Association—Copyright Sydney, .lanuury 24. Kxtracts 11-omjl tlio log of the captain o< the steamer La France, published in .Noumea u papers, and cow-ring the AiaI'rym incident, state that the natives were asked it they wanted to board the !:a bronco iuitl 1)0- conveyed safely to I'ort Sandwich. They accepted, readily, mil coumieuced embarking. Suddenly .wa launches with white people aboar.i, ]uitc unknown to the crew of the La 'ninoe, appeared 011 the scene and inited'the natives to leave the La Franco. A little scene followed. Notice was iiw-n to Dr. Powie and his associates iot to interfere. Upon, their refusal to lesist they were threatened with a pritiklitiy. Seeing that they did not U( '« c l lh .Q steamer's pump was put into t'tion, and Bowie and his associates "' re copiously drenched, , It is also alleged that Howie dragged . natives from the La France's boat, and told them the Lll France, was recruit- • ing for Noumea. 1 'l'lio captain claims that the La, France I lescued -hi natives from <lainj;er.