Attempts Suicide
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Tortured Samoan Girl
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, May 20.
A T Satapuala, on the coast west of Apia, a young Samoan girl went to work on her family’s inland plantation, taking a knife with her to cut banana leaves.
The girl climbed a coconut tree to ob tain drinking coconuts and she fell, and hurt her leg badly. Tortured by pain, she took her kife and attempted to cut her throat, completely severing her windpipe.
Many hours later her family, alarmed by her long absence, found her lying in a pool of blood, but still alive. She was taken to Apia hospital, where she now is under medical treatment, and expected to live.