ATTACK BY NATIVES.
NEW GUINEA INCIDENT.
PATROL PARTY WOUNDED
KNIVES AND ARROWS USED
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 30, 11 a.m. CANBERRA, Sept. 30. News has been received from the acting-Administrator of New Guinea of an attack by natives on September 24 on a patrol in the Rai coast area, near Madang. Assistant-District Officer Nurton and all the members of the camp were wounded. oix or the attacking natives were killed and one woman «as captured. Tile natives grabbed JNur.ton wmle the women attacked him with knives, lhe other men attacked Nurton s native police with arrows.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 259, 30 September 1936, Page 9
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100ATTACK BY NATIVES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 259, 30 September 1936, Page 9
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