A PAPUAN AFFRAY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13996, 28 January 1916, Page 6

A PAPUAN AFFRAY.

POLICE PARTY ATTACKED BY

NATIVES

A CONSTABLE KILLED

Melbourne, Jan. 27

The- Hon. H. Mahon, Federal Minister of External Affairs, has received particulars of an affray in Papua. Natives attacked the police, who were endeavouring to. arrest a ■•inurde.re.r.-,

| One constable was fatally speared, .tind two were wounded. The one rejnaining policeman I gallantly went t6 Iris comrades' assistance and killed five fpf the assailants. Next day a party Mtacked Patrol-officer Ely th, who shot ..■:.- .. /' "'■"} '■:■■■ '■';•■ •.' '