Death Follows Jungle-Juice
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From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, May 9.
ONE native death and one serious ill ness resulted from a drinking ex periment near Lunga River, Guadalcanal, on April 30.
Finding a drum of some war-purpose fluid, abandoned in a former American air-raid shelter, a native stevedore from Honiara offered it to two friends, an other stevedore and a Honiara cookboy.
Both tried it and took a small quantity of the “liquor” home with them.
Five days later the cookboy was ad mitted to Central Hospital and died the same night. The other victim pulled through but is left with permanent, partial-blindness. The fluid had a high alcoholic content.
A charge will be preferred against the finder of the drum, who prudently re frained from sampling its contents him self.
Mr. Marvin Henry, a 25-year-old Ameri can, left Brisbane recently in a 26 ft. con verted life-boat (bought in Brisbane), for a tour round the Pacific Islands on one of which he plans to settle. He served in the US Merchant Marine Service dur ing the war; said that he liked the Islands and the people, and that he wanted to go back and start a coconut plantation.