NATIVE TREACHERY
ATTACKS IN NEW GUINEA
WHITE OFFICER INJURED
United . Press Association—By Electric Tele' • '.graph—Copyright. (Received 15th January, 1 p.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day,
A Eabaul message states that two treacherous attacks by natives have just occurred. While Assistant Director Officer Calcutt was piloting the schooner Rabaul through the Palmalmal reefs he was felled by an axe stroke on the head, from behind. Calcutt's assailant, Luluai, a village headman at Raulili, then inflicted shocking abdominal wounds on a police boy. A second police boy also received a frightful wound. Luluai jumped overboard and escaped in the bush. The three men, who wore attacked are improving, A recruiting expedition, which, was not accompanied by a white man, attempted to seize some natives at Mapungo. The latter resisted, and it is alleged that a recruited native named Alimel killed a man with an axe. Alimel appeared at the Central Court later, but was acquitted on a charge' of murder as he had acted in self-defence.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 10
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162NATIVE TREACHERY Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 10
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