NEW GUINEA NATIVES
" ' ' A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. TWO ENGAGEMENTS. * FIVE CASUAETIES. (Press Association —By Telegraph—fopj-right.) MELBOURNE, January 22. An official report states that the special expedition of five Europeans and twenty native police, which was sent to the area to arrest the murderers at Salamoa, New Guinea, found paths studded with spikes and the villages deserted. When the party at length got in touch with the natives the latter threw spears and fired arrows at them. The natives were driven from their stronghold, but larer attacked a party of carriers. The punitive expedition then intervened, and called on the natives to surrender the sub-chief. This was refused, and an engagement followed, during which two natives were shot. The natives retreated to another village, where further fighting occurred, in which four natives and the sub-chief were shot. There was one Government 'casualty. The party is now posted in the disaffected area to maintain order.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20005, 24 January 1927, Page 7
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152NEW GUINEA NATIVES Otago Daily Times, Issue 20005, 24 January 1927, Page 7
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