MARAUDING BLACKS
ABORIGINAL RAID IN FAR
NORTH
United Press Association—By Electric T«U-'
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(Received 12th March, 10 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
A Darwin message states that the police in the Northern Territory have been mustered to deal with a marauding expedition of wild aborigines in the Carpenterian - district. Fifty men from a tribe surprised a camp, killed three men with stone axes and spears, looted the camp, and carried''off all the women and girls. A missionary pursued the marauders, who released the prisoners. He was threatened with an. attack on the miscion station.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 58, 12 March 1929, Page 11
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