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TREACHEROUS NATIVE.
Axe Attacks On Official Of New Guinea.
SEVERE INJURIES INFLICTED.
(Received 31.30 a.m.)
SYDNEY, this day. A Rabnul message states that two treacherous attacks by natives have nrcurred. While Assistant-Director Officer ('(limit was piloting the schooner UiilMiul tlirongh (he Palmalal reefs he whs felled by an axe stroke on the head t) cMii behind. (Hlctitfs assailant, Luluat. a village Ju-sidinnn ;it Riiulili, tlien inflicted shocking abdominal wounds nn a police boy. A second police hoy aNo received a. frightful wound. Lulua: jumped overI •nurd mifl escaped to the bush. The three men who were attacked are impro\ mjt. A recruiting expedition, unaccompanied l'.\ ii. while man, iittenipted to seize some <>f the natives at Mupungo. The latter re-inlncl and it i-< alleged that a recruit named Aliinel killed a man with an axe. Aliinel, at, the Central Court, was later ni(|iiitc(l on the charge of murder <)> V.k: net cd in self-defence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 8
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