Ridiculous "Cannibal" Story

A SYDNEY newspaper on March 6, under a banner headline,

Cannibalism In Sea

DRAMA, printed a story from some one alleged to be a special repre sentative, which began thus;

HONIARA, Tues. —Survivors of the "Deao Ship" Arakarimoa are believed to have eat»t human flesh.

They did so in the grim battle for surviw during a horror drift of 2,000 miles in 6 days.

This shock message was brought to Honiaia yesterday by a native runner from Malaget' Mission on the south coast of Guadalcanal. (Oven

had to swim crocodile-infested rivers and igh floodwaters to bring his terrible news. ewspapers everyw he re fight inst any restrictions on their ;dom —but there is, at times, lething to be said for legal isures that would compel news ers to divulge the source of some ;heir more fantastic statements; when they are proved wrong, to ipel them to print a correction, ew of the fantasies that appear the daily Press these days are • corrected, even when they are r proved to be nothing but sheer sationalism.

Inquiry At Honiara

n inquiry into the Arakarimoa t will be held in Honiara late •eh, with special reference to: Whether the vessel was ihanically fit to go to sea when left Tarawa; and Why passengers were left ard after all crew abandoned the