SKIRMISH IN THE ISLANDS.
A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. 8y Cable —Press Association —Copyright Sydney, .July 13. Advices from Noumea report the arrival of the French warship Kersaint. ■She visited Malekula in eonipany wit'i H..M.SS. Torch on July 4 in order to chastise tilie natives for the murder of teachers. A company of marines wits landed without resistance and proceeded through the hu>h. The natives attacked them, and there were several skirmishes. l''our of the native troops were wounded and one Malekula native captured.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 45, 14 July 1914, Page 5
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82SKIRMISH IN THE ISLANDS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 45, 14 July 1914, Page 5
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