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Show SUPPRESS BANDS OF BRIGANDS. Southern Pacific Islanders Who Are Robbing and Looting. San Francisco, Oct. 12. A special to the Call from Victoria, B. C, says: According Ac-cording to advices received in letters : which have reached here frcm the New-Hebrides, New-Hebrides, two men-of-war one British and. one French acting In concert, have been suppressing bands of brigands brig-ands which have been robbing and looting the native villages, and in many cases the stores ol' the traders in the southern. Pacific archipelago. At Segon a band of twelve or fifteen escaped convicts from the French prison at New Caledonia; who, since they escaped in a stolen schooner five months ago, had been robbing1 and raiaing, were Kineu ana ineii tinny destroyed. At Lepers island, where the governor was killed some time ago, the two ships fired upon and destroyed the native na-tive villages. On one island several native women had been seized by "beach combers," and in revenge the natives made prisoners of seven missionariesfive mis-sionariesfive Catholics and two Protestants who were rescued by the warships. |