HOSTILE BLACKS
MASSACRE OF JAPANESE. SUDDEN ATTACK MADE. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Darwin, October 6. Details of the massacre of five Japanese by aboriginals have been brought to Darwin by Harold Gray, who was in the vicinity on board a lugger at the time of the conflict. Aboriginals from Goulbum Island had told him that the Japanese had just unloaded at Trepang when Caledon Bay natives rushed the camp and seized their guns which were stacked against a tree. The natives fired and killed the Japanese and also used shovels and spears to deadly purpose. They afterwards looted the lugger and finally escaped in a Japanese dinghy. Gray buried the bodies of the five Japanese, and. returned to the Mullimbingi Mission. About twenty aboriginals were concerned in the attack.
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Southland Times, Issue 21831, 7 October 1932, Page 7
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129HOSTILE BLACKS Southland Times, Issue 21831, 7 October 1932, Page 7
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