MASSACRED BY ISLANDERS.
FOUR NATIVES BUTCHERED FOR THEIR RIFLES.
PUNITIVE EXPEDITION BEING
SENT.
Received 2Gth, 9.18 p.m.
Sydney, March 26. Advices by the Island steamer gives particulars of a massacre of natives at Admiralty Islands. Four natives went from their own to an adjacent island to purchase food supplies. While bartering they were surrounded by bush natives, who hacked them to pieces with tomahawks. The massacred natives carried rifles, and it is believed that it was for the' sake of theße that they were butchered. Hhe German authorities aro sending a puwtive expedition.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 83, 27 March 1908, Page 2
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