ITALY'S COAT OF ARMS
COLOMBO AFFAIR SETTLED
Australian Press Association.
(Received Bth March, 2 p.m.)
COLOMBO, 7th March,
Two university students pleaded guilty to damaging the Italian Consu* late coat-of-arms and were bound over.
FIGHT IN PAPUA
NATIVES ATTACK POLICE
PARTY'
United Tress Association—By Electric Tek-
graph—Copyright,, . . (Received Bth March, 2 p,m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
The attack by Papuan natives on a Government party, reported on. 6th March, appears to have been much fiercer in character than, at first announced. The Government party numbered eighty. The day .after their arrival at Goilaba, the natives were seen gathering armed with spears. Al volley of arrows injured three native policemen. Fighting continued throughout the day, arrows flying in'all direc* tions. On tho following day an attack was made from all sides, volley; after volley of spears coming, from the thick scrub. The total casualties were nine of the attackers killed by rifle fire with an additional casualty uncertain.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 55, 8 March 1929, Page 10
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