ATTACK ON A LUGGER.
■ ■ BLOODTHIRSTY WORK OF ABORIGINALS. (By Telegraph-Press Assn .-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) DARWIN, Dec. 20. Details of the attack on a Japanesa Lugger slioav that a native boy brought information to a Avhite man encamped some distance aAvay that aboriginals had attacked the lugger. When the man went to the lugger he found it stranded cn rocks. The deck was covered with blood and a dead aboriginal Avas found there. After questioning natives the man learned that while the Japanese skipper Avas ashore four Caledon Bay savages attacked the lugger and after a desperate fight killed a native and threAV the body overboard. The skipper shortly afterwards returned with two aboriginal members of the crew and they Avcre savagely attacked, but the aboriginals managed to escape. The captain, after a great fight in Avhich he killed one of the assailants, Avas himself killed and his body Avas throVn overboard. The pirates then looted the lugger and decamped.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 December 1926, Page 5
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