ATTACKED BY NATIVES.
POLICE PARTY IN PAPUA.
[moil OCR own- correspondent.] Sydney, September 4. Anothkk affray between, police and natives lias just occurred in Papua. A party under Mr. Burrows, an assistant magistrate, handcuffed four natives charged with minor offences. The rest of tho tribesmen thereupon attacked the party, and the prisoners escaped with their hand'cuffs on. Several native police were slightly wounded, one arrow passing through a policeman's jacket at the chest line. Mr. Burrows escaped "unhurt, and the police party drove the- attackers off with a brisk rille firo. The native rush had been eo determined that one was felled with a blow' from the flat of a trooper's bayonet. Mr. Burrows • and his party proceeded to Sumai, on Kiwi Island, wherethe resident magistrate. Mr. Beaver, was attending the opening of the London Mission Society's church. Mr. Beaver and Mr. Burrows left Sumai last week in an endeavour to secure the escaped prisoners : and the leaders of the attack.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15094, 10 September 1912, Page 8
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