FIGHT IN NEW GUINEA.
NATIVES ATTACK OFFICIAL. PARTY.
BLOOD .SHED IN ENCOUNTER.
.By Telegraph-Press Assn .-Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 9.45 a.in.) SYDNEY, This Day.
A Port- Moresby message states that a State Officer was 'attacked by natives near Mount Yule while making camp. Shots were fired over the heads of the attackers without effect. The officer then ordered his boys to fire into the attackers. Two natives were thus killed. A shower of arrows was fired into the camp and a large body of natives concentrated for another attack. Attempts to parley were made by the officer, but arrows wore again thrown at~him.
After a fight lasting three hours, in which another native and one of the defenders were kjjled, the attackers withdrew.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 January 1929, Page 5
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