THE PONAPE REBELS
GERMANY'S PUNITIVE EXPEDITION,
SWIFT, TERRIBLE, AND COMPLETE
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrighv
BRISBANE, March 20. (Received March 20, at 9.9 a.m.) A well-known Sydney merchant., who has recently arrived from Ponape (Caroline- Islands), states that the jato rebellion was quickly crushed. A German punitive expedition, numbering 800 men, attacked the- rebels' position in the mountains and stormed it. Many were killed and sixty surrendered. The vest vera hmvU-d like wild beasts till only sixteen of the principal murderas were left. Finally they surrendered. Two of the lenders who were \hot first addressed the native.-?, and declared that they were fools to revolt against the Germans, who had treated them well They advised their friends to obey the law. The other fourteen, who were afterwards shot, fared death laughing and joking.
THE PONAPE REBELS
Evening Star, Issue 14519, 20 March 1911, Page 6
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