No Onions!: Tahiti Suffers From Strike

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No Onions!

Tahiti Suffers From Strike From Our Own Correspondent PAPEETE, Dec. 20.

TTNLIKE the Hawaiian Islands, the French islands of Oceania have suffered little hardship from the maritime strike on the Pacific Coast of the United States, so far as the suppliers of foodstuffs are concerned —with one devastating exception—i.e., the exhaustion of the supply of onions.

Tahiti is the home of a race of noble Frenchmen, who demand strong flavours and piquant sauces, which lose their savour unless strongly impregnated with the essences of onions and garlic.

Onions do not mature in the soil of tropical Polynesia and must be imported from the Temperate Zone.

Were all communications with the outside world cut off our islands could struggle along with its ample supplies of fish from the sea; breadfruit, taro, kumera, yams from the plantations; and plantain and oranges from the mountains.

But without onions all these are as Dead Sea fruit on the palates of our