Show SEEK RECALL OF I 1 TAHITI GOVERNOR Neglect During Epidemic of Influenza in Colony Is Ch Charged a I ISI Island of Tahiti Jan 13 B By lly Mall A Mail A petition signed h by more moc than el eighty hl of oC the th most mast prominent and Influential wench French citizens of or Tahiti I Including the mayor 01 of or the members member of or municipal council and Lilli I most of or the leading lending merchants 11 ha has a 11 been to tho the president of oC France Prance tho the prime primo minister and tho the chamber of oC deputies demanding the tiro recall of or Go Gov G. G and ard the chlor of or the medical service ser of oC Tahiti Tho The petition gives he In full a n. history of or tho the recent Influenza epidemic citing In detail the alleged neglect lect of or dut duty on tho the part of uC tho the governor of oC the colony colun col col- un any ony and tho chief of the medical service ice and demands the th appointment j of or a commission of oC Investigation A great reat proportion of oC the tho bodies 9 tho dead arc are said Maid to havo have he begun to decompose cle- cle compose before they could be taken n away alvay In Ill some cases d decomposition Is reported to have havo become no so far tar ad advanced nd- nd that It was necessary to burn hurn down tho the houses In which the they were lying as the they could coul not be approached In this crisis tho the mayor moor of oC took charge of oC tho the situation and Is I given Iven tho the credit for tor nm ameliorating conditions con con- as its much as possible b by his ills heroic heroic he he- role service Governor Governur Julien Jullen recently addressed I he-I a 1 request to tho the British an and Arn American consuls that they tiley supply him with the tho I names of oC those of oC their compatriots compatriots' who had helped In the work of or relief relic during the epidemic In order that ho ha might bring to the notice of oC tho the government government gov gov- of ot Franco France a record of oC their services When hen consulted h by their consuls American and British h residents residents resi resl- dents d declined to consider any recognition tion by tho the present governor o and re refused refused re- re fused tuse to allow their names to be sent In In the Society Islands alone 22 per pel percent percent cent of or tho population are known to have ha perished from the epidemic It Is IB maintained that prompt and antl effect effect- ive lye action netlon would have been the tho means menus of oC saving man many of oC these lives o. o |