A Fracas In Santo
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Santo, Dec. 21
A NEWS item cut from the p< of a recent issue of Syd Morning Herald and maybe fairy story appeared in other / tralian papers— tells us of war deeds and so forth up on the > coast of Santo. This ‘’news” received in the New Hebrides various ways, ranging from pc boredom to raucous laughter, story originated in Vila and, I m add, is completely untrue, to the pi of absurdity.
Originally, I wrote the story i: small PIM paragraph, telling of in tribal brawling on the estate of Chaverot. This is substantially < rect. Some “bushies” interfe with M. Chaverot’s native lab< thus causing a disturbance suffic to warrant M. Chaverot’s inten tion.
In the resultant fracas two nat (“bushies”) were killed, while anol died some days later from (it is ported) internal injuries.
The gory story of how a na cut off M. Chaverot’s arm witl cane knife is pure fiction.
Chaverot suffered a slight cut on hand. M. Chaverot recently trave to Noumea.