PUNITIVE EXPEDITION
—♦ ARNHEM LAND NATIVES BLOODSHED INVOLVED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 4. The ‘ Daily Herald ’ gives prominence to a Brisbane message under the heading ‘ Australian Punitive Expedition to Please Japan,’ and states: ‘‘Fear of trouble with Japan may force the Commonwealth on Monday to sanction. an expedition against natives in Arnhem Land, which would involve much bloodshed. Apparently the Government has not the courage ito tell Japan that it can only protect Japanese who observe the law.”
PROTEST TO PRIME MINISTER. MELBOURNE, September 4. The Rev. J. Burton, general secretary of the Methodist foreign missions, telegraphed a protest to tho Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons) against the proposed punitive expedition to Arnhem Land. Mr Burton fears that tho innocent might suffer with the guilty. CABINET DEFERS DECISION. SYDNEY, September 5. (Received September 5, at 10.5 a.m.) The proposal to send a punitive expedition to Arnhem Land owing to the murders of Japanese and whites has aroused many public protests, and the Federal Cabinet, which considered yesterday the stops to bo taken, deferred decision. Ministers are convinced that strong action is needed, as tho natives responsible for tho crimes boast that they will bo repeated if any whites come within the area set aside as a native reserve.
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Evening Star, Issue 21508, 5 September 1933, Page 7
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