RECENT TROUBLE AT RABAUL
INQUIRY OPENED Australian Press Association. Sydney, March 6. A message from Rabaul states that Brigadier-General Griffiths has begun an inquiry into the origin of the natives’ demonstration on January 2 and 3, when most of the police boys and three thousand indentured labourers deserted at Rabaul. Outside the court thirtv-one of the ringleaders were handcuffed together. These are now serving sentence. Some will give evidence. The missionaries gave evidence that the natives left work because they wanted higher wages, as the white man was taking gold from their countrv. Details received by the Marsina, which has arrived from Rabaul, of the attack made a month ago upon a Government party in- the Ononge district, show that two patrol officers and a party of-native police went to the villag<?,-of Goilala in an attempt to arrest'a native murderer. The villagers' showed open hostility, and in the resulting conflict one native policeman was wounded and nine Goilala. men shot. The murderer was eventually arrested and is now awaiting trial. .
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 138, 7 March 1929, Page 11
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