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Poaching
Report From New Guinea
From Our Own Correspondent.
Rabaul, Apl. 3.
Another report of Japanese poaching has been received from the Western Is lands.
Mr. S. C. Thompson, of Awinn, again sends word that recently a Japanese sampan anchored off his island, and the captain came ashore, while his crew busied themselves in denuding the reef of trochus-shell.
It is reported that the captain, while ashore, abused Mr. Thompson. In the vicinity of his house, the captain noticed some unbagged trochus; this he ordered his crew to bag up and place on board, which was done.
One of the chief complaints raised by the planters, who are subjected to this treatment from the Japanese, is that the poachers are cleaning the reefs of the small trochus, which it is illegal for planters to take.