Show LIE I 1 HE AGES CAPTAIN AND TEN MEMBERS OF CREW OF TRADING VESSEL MURDERED BY SAVAGES after Prete pretending riding friendliness ceroc ious lous natives slaughter men and then make a funeral pyre out of their ship IlIc victoria torla 13 L further detilla de tilli ot of the massacres in new ew britain early last 11 month tirrill tir lill reported in tit ayd ney cables ricaud by the tile steamer Ill maraena arania un on are to tho the effect that captain undray unda ay iy ot of hie the ketch 11 and ton ten ot of tho the crew crea were murdered and burned and the radl ni easel essel looted and set on ore fire tho the bodies of some of tile aly victalina vict lina thrown into 1 the flames 1 captain lindsay conr and master waster of the vessel lessel and who waa kroml nent in the new britain trade was wais off the east coast ot of new britain about allis from front Hebert shone recruit ing labor and about sundown when he lie anchored his ship tor for the night a a rin ot of native canoes cama came olt off and the blacks amhed that he come ashore as a plenty of men were ready to eign sign on as laborers captain lindsay went ashore and as escorted to a big native house ft here lahera about a hundred blacks wore nore gathered As oon soon ail ho he stepped it be he was A as struck down from behind with a spear and the bracks blacks sprang upon him with knives lit fell bleeding from scores core of wounds mounds and und was hacked to death the body wig wis then dragged out to the beach by the heels and burnad tho the flotilla a canoes then went ent off to tho and the na tives swart swarmed ned aboard one ono after an other the ten men of the crew were slaughtered then while they lay some dead some mortally niort ally wounded oun ded on the dick a raid was made on the stores and kerosene poured over the deck and in the holds making the ship a funeral pyre for the murdered in men en ship and victims were corn earn destroyed borne natives reported the occurrences to the Lane cog which at crice steamed for and report cd oil it A cerman verman puni punitive tise was as being prepared when the lane cog left the islands |