From the October 19, 1911 New York Times:

“Vancouver, B.C.–The Rev. J.G. Patton, who arrived to-day from Maleoules, New Hebrides, where he has been a missionary for nineteen years, said that shortly before he left a French trading vessel made a raid and a number of natives were kidnapped. 

The natives, in revenge, attacked the steamer and captured three of the crew, all natives. These were killed and eaten.”