ATTACKS BY NATIVES.
A WHITE MAN INJURED
ALSO TYVO POLICE BOYS.
niied Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Received 11 a.m. t'o:-da.y. SYDNEY, Jan. 15.
A Rabaul message* states* that two* treacherous attacks by natives have* just occurred. While the assistant director, Officer Calcutt, was piloting the schooner Rabaul through the* Palmalal reefs he was felled (by an* axe stroke on the head from behind. CaLcutit’s assailant, Luluai, al village headman, at Kaulaili, then inflicted shocking abdominal wound's* on a police boy and a second police bay also received ai frightful wound. Luluai jumped overboard and escaped to the bush. The three men who were attacked are improving. A recruitng expedition, unaccompanied by a white* man, attempted to seize some natives at Mapungo. The l latter resisted, and it is alleged that a recruit named Alimel killed a mam with an* axe. Alimel, at the Central Court, was later acquitted on a charge of murder, as he had acted in self-defence.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 January 1929, Page 5
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