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TERRITORY ABORIGINES.
ARMED SEARCH PARTIES.
DOUGLAS MAWBON INCIDENT,
(Received 10.15 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Dr. Jensen, formerly Director of Mines and Chief Government Geologist in the Northern Territory, states that he believes that the natives' story of the Douglas Mawson is based' on fact, as the natives along the Gulf from Cape Wilberforce to the Roper River are the biggest, strongest and most ferocious in the Territory and are also reputed cannibals. Few of the whites who have ventured into their country have returned. He added that the search party should be very strongly i equipped in order to withstand sudden spear onslaughts by the savages.—A. andvN.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 30 July 1924, Page 5
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