CANNIBAL OUTRAGES.
TWO GERMAN SCIENTISTS MURDERED.
WITH THEIR NATIVE BEARERS.
By Telesrrauh—Press Association—Cooyrisht Brisbane, December 22. Tlio steamer Prinz Waldemar lias brought a report from the Island ofRobaul that two German scientists and fourteen natives were murdered by cannibals on tlio Island of New Mccklenberg (formerly New Ireland) in tlio Bismar.ck Archipelago. It appears that Ilorr Deiniuger and another Gorman and a number of nativo carriers wcro collecting specimens of timber, when they wcro surprised and massacred by savages. Thero are no details.' A wireless report from Port Moresby states that two mail-carrying natives, who wcro missing, have been discovered decapitated five miles from the town. Tlicy were murdered by recalcitrant natives living twenty miles from the capital.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1939, 23 December 1913, Page 5
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118CANNIBAL OUTRAGES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1939, 23 December 1913, Page 5
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