ATTACKED BY BLACKS.
THREE EUROPEANS MURDERED.
FURTHER OUTRAGES FEARED Press Association.—Electric Telegraph. —Cop;//vjht.
Thursday Island, September 13. The blacks attacked the camp of four white men at Batavia, on the western side of the Cape York Peninsula, and killed three, the fourth escaping.
Great anxiety exists among the whites, and it is feared that the Hacks, emboldened by the success of the last murders, will attack the telegraph stations.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8361, 15 September 1890, Page 5
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