ISLAND NEWS.
CANNIBALISM IN NEW GUINEA. A COLD-BLOODED MASSACRE. (Press Association.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, Friday. Island news states that the Government punitive expedition-has returned to Port Moresby from Central Papua with a number of native prisoners charged with the niurdcr of Mnruitai villagei-s. The latter had invited the Karuema tribesmen to a dance. The visitors, discovering that all but two Muruitai men were absent, killed these two, mas.s-a.cred the women and children, wiped out tile village, and feasted on the bodies, of their victims. They then departed with much loot. The expedition had much difficulty in capturing tho murderers.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 20 October 1911, Page 5
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97ISLAND NEWS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 20 October 1911, Page 5
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