MASSACRE AT THE ISLANDS.
The Admiralty Group, situated about 180 miles north-east of German New Guinea, has beer the scene of another horrible massacre. The victims were Captain Comino — a Japanese master of a small trading craft— and two of his native crew. The news of the tragedy was brought to Sydney by the German mail steamer Prinz Waldemar. The mail steamer in the course of her cruise, touched at Simpson Haven, in German New Guinea, and while there a report of the massacre \vas brought in by one of the island trading vessels. • The report created quite a sensation among the traders. Dr. Hahl, the Governor, was organising an expedition of native police to proceed in the Government yacht Seestern to the scene and avenge the massacre. The natives ot the Admiralty Group are known to be very treacherous, and they are never trusted by traders. Captain Comino originally came from Thursday Island. He had been trading in the islands where ho met his death, for wbuut ten yeara.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 99, 28 April 1909, Page 5
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