CANNIBAL FEAST.
« i • PAPUAN VILLAGE MASSACRE. i By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, October 20. i Island news states that tho Govom- - ment punitive expedition has returned b i Port Moresby from Central Papua, with [ a number of native prisoners charged with murder. t It appears that recently Murnitai vil--3 lagers invited Karuema tribesmen to a r dance. Tho visitors, discovering that all - but two of the Muruitai men were absent, killed theso two, massacred tho women t and children, wiped out tho village, and feasted on tho bodies of their victims. . They then departed with much loot. Tho expedition experienced much dif- . ficulty in capturing tho murderers. i
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1265, 21 October 1911, Page 5
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107CANNIBAL FEAST. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1265, 21 October 1911, Page 5
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