NEW GUINEA MURDERS
PUNITIVE EXPEDITION
(United Press Association.—Copyright.)
(Bcceived 22ncl January, 1 p.m.)
MELBOURNE, This Day. An-official report states that a special expedition of five Europeans ana twenty native police sent into the area to arrest the murderers of. Salamoa, SSew Guinea, found the paths studded with spikes and the village deserted When the party at. length got into touch with the natives, the latter threw spears, and fired arrows. The natives were driven'from their stronghold, but later attacked a party of carriers. The punitive expedition then intervened and called on the natives' to surrender their sub-chief. This was refused. An engagement followed, during which two natives were shot. The natives retreated to another, village, where further fighting occurred, in which four native's and a sub-chief were shot. There was one Government casualty. The-party" is now posted in the- disaffected: area to.maintain:order.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 18, 22 January 1927, Page 7
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