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Show oo ! Influenza Threatens Annihilation of Race! PAPEETE, Tahiti. Dec. 23. (By Mail.) Influenza threatens annihilation annihila-tion of the natives of the Marquf-ssas islands, th most northerly of 11k French holdings on Occanica, acoor"d-inj acoor"d-inj to reports Just received here. Only a few of the Marquessans. once- a numerous race of splendidly formed, handsome Polynesians who werj feared because of their cannibalistic cannibal-istic practices, remain, and these, it believed, may be completely wiped out by the disease. |