MORE MASSACRES.
ANOTHER TRAGEDY IN THE ISLANDS. BUTCHERED WHEN BARTERING. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT 3 /PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Sydney, March 25. Advices by an island steamer give particulars of a massacre of natives in tho Admiralty Islands. . Pour natives went from their own to an adjacent island to purchase food supplies. While bartering they were surrounded by fresh natives, who hacked them to pieces with tomaThose who were massacred carried rifles, and it is believed that it was for the sake of these that they wero butchered. The German authorities are sending a punitive expedition to the island.
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Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 532, 27 March 1908, Page 4
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