THE ISLAND MASSACRE.
RISING OF NEW BRITAIN
NATIVES
MURDER AND CANNIBALISM
SYDNEY, April 21
Further news is to hand from New Britain (in the Bismarck Archipelago, north-east of : New Guinea) regarding- the native attack on the station of Rudolph ; Wolff, and the murder of Mrs Wolff and her child and a nurse.
When the relief party reached Wolff's house they found everything smashed, and a number of black labour boys desperately wounded. Miss Coe, residing at' Wolff's, was struck with a tomahawk, but a Solomon Islander displayed conspicuous bravery and rescued her* He also prevented the murderers from burning1 Mrs Wolff's body. • r ' : ;.;■ i Many of Wolff's labourers are still missing,. and it -i» £«n,r,ed they fa<ave been killed and eaten.
A general rising of natives is anticipated. A larg-e force of black labourers have been armed to meet an emergency.. . ■ ~. ■,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 94, 22 April 1902, Page 5
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