IN NEW GUINEA
SCIENTISTS AND NATIVES MURDERED.
Dy Telegraph— Press Association— Copyrltfhi
BRISBANE, December 22,
The steamer Prinz Waldemar has brought a report from the Island of Robaul that two German scientists ana fourteen natives were murdered by cannibals on the Island of New Mecklenberg (formerly Now Ireland) in the Bismarck Archipelago. It appears that Herr Deininger and another German and a number of native carriers were collecting specimens of timber, when they were surprised and massacred by savages. There are no details.
A wireless report from Port Moresby states that two mail-carrying natives, who were missing, have been discovered decapitated five miles from the town.
They wore murdered by recalcitrant natives living twenty miles from tho capital.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8611, 23 December 1913, Page 5
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