SAVAGE FEAST
INTERRUPTED BY AMERICAN SERGEANT ON SOUTH PACIFIC ISLAND CANNIBALS RECRUITED AS LABOURERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) NEW YORK. September 23. The Honolulu correspondent of the "New York Times" sends on a story from an "advanced airfield on a South Pacific island" of how an American sergeant interrupted a cannibal feast to recruit .native labour and help build an airfield. Captain Martin Teem Ellajayga said, “The Navy and marines, working together in the rush building of an airfield. needed native labour, but they could not get enough here, so we sent a sergeant, to another island. When he reached ,a village there natives wearing a singe wooden belt and coco-nut-husk loin cloth were just finishing a feast of which the main dish was 10 women who had been stolen from the chief of another tribe.
“It seems that tribe A. stole and ate the wife of the chief of tribe B.; therefore, tribe B. retaliated and stole the other chief’s 10 wives.
'When they had finished the meal the sergeant dickered with them. They agreed to come and help us for a certain period, because they had heard that others had received good treatment and wages from the Americans.’’
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1942, Page 3
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200SAVAGE FEAST Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1942, Page 3
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