Show f t 4 S J CREY At 1 f i P U PUT to ij DE DEATH TH Oct 19 Further doWns of oc the tho massacres In hi New ew early last hun mouth month briefly reported In Sydney Sydner cables b by the steamer Mara Marama nm ma today toda to tho that the cp cap caplain lain or of the Ketch abul and ten or aZ hit hs crew court ered and burned and the trading vessel looted and se seon set seton on fire the or of some of oC the vie tins being thrown Into the flames The rho steamer which re to Sydney from Crom the tho New ew Brit alit aln group shortly the steamer sailed reported the tho occurrence Her Iler officers said Captain Lindsay owner and master or of the and who was prominent in the New o Britain trade was off aft the east coast of New Britain about miles from Herbert shorne recruiting and that about sun sundown sundown down when ho anchored his ship for Cor Corthe forthe the night a 11 swarm or of native canoes came off and the blacks asked if IC he would come ashore as plenty of men wore ready to 10 sign on as laborers Captain Lindsay went ashore and f 11 7 ti l a es 6 t ed j to ta a t natho house jh v ut abo f fa ra hund d blacks were gatti red W WAg Ag lis ds 1 ho he stopped In ho he was struck down from behind with a spear and the blacks sprang upon him with knives Ho He fell Cell bleeding from Crom scores of oC and was hacked to death T e was as then drugged oUtto to the beach by the tho heels and burned The flotilla or of canoes then went off to the Rabid and blacks swarmed aboard One after another the ton ten mon of the crew Were slaughtered Then Theu they lay some somo dead some somo mortally wounded on the deck a raid was made on the tho stores and kerosene poured over the deck and In the holds making the ship u a funeral pyre fOr forthe the murdered men Ship and victims wore were completely destra destroyed ed Some Somo natives reported the tho occur occurrences occurrences I to the ilio whIch at once steamed for her and reported It A German punitive c cI ex I was being prepared when the tho thoI left leCt the Islands I A report was alco brought from the Islands that the French recruit recruiting ing Ketch ot of fart forty tons i was VaiS and wrecked b by blacks blacksIn In the New Hebrides fit at the tho same sameI time lime at and French I captain and native ero or of el eight ht mas mag t I sacred but ria no confirmation had been received A wireless message from Cram H M 1 S Prometheus stated that some somo or of the natives nathe of oC the had b been n killed but the captain and other hors bers wore oro said to lO ha have vo escaped I |