FIGHTS IN PAPUA.
NATIVES ATTACK POLICE
B 7 Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright MELBOURNE, January 27. The Hon H. Mahon has received particulars of an affray with natives s in Papua. The natives attacked the police, who were endeavouring to arrest, a murderer; One native constable was fatally speared and two were wounded. The one remaining police constable gallantly went to his comrades' assistance and killed five of his assailants. Next day a party of natives attacked the patrol officer, Mr Blyth, who shot three of them.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17077, 28 January 1916, Page 7
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