MASSACRES OF ABORIGINES.
United Press Assn.—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, September 4. The Commonwealth Ministry contemplates despatching a punitive expedition to Port Darwin to Armhfeim Land in an endeavour to arrest the aborigines responsible for the recent massacres of Japanese pearlers and fishermen, also the white men who attempted to land there. The latest murder victim is Constable McGoll, who, with a party . pursuing police, was speared, while another received a spear through the hat. The aborigines are in a wild native state and they declare they will not allow anvbody to enter their preserves. The" Government thinks that as a result of -m P unitive expedition bloodshed tvi JI be inevitable.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12440, 5 September 1933, Page 5
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111MASSACRES OF ABORIGINES. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12440, 5 September 1933, Page 5
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