AUSTRALIA.
United Pre-- A-aomticm-By Electric THE VICTORIAN lUILWAY ASTERMELBOURNE, April 25. A sensational statement has been made that tbe brake was cut out on one of the carriages of-the Bendigo train, while the breaks on another car showed slow instead of quids action. ESCAPE FROM CANNIBALS. BRISBANE, April 25. TVo ventuiesom© Bottlers of New Guinea, named Buchwian and Carpenter, have had a thrilling escape from cannibals. They had penetrated into a-fertile valley, little known except that it. was peopled by savages. Bo& men. received a hostile reception and fled down the river in their launch, pursued by a horde of frenzied Papuans, but. to their dismay, the fugitives found six war canoee coming np stream-. These, however, turned out to be friendly natives, who had been attracted by the war cries of the wild tribe, and they rescued th© two men.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13100, 27 April 1908, Page 7
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