Australian Telegrams.
Per Press Association. Sydney, May 25. A sensational story comes from Me*ttke, in Dutch New Guinea. Two hundred prisoners came from Sumatra to carry out road making. Tmrteen «scape<?to the bush, and fell into the handTof the natives, including the Tugas (a race of head, hunters). Each prisoner as he was captured was decapitated, and the heads were carried off as trophies. , , Owinff to the continuance of the drought, there is a steady diminution •of the city supply of water, and the Water Board has again appealed to Citizens to strictly economise Cholera is prevalent m- the .ThiUphines. Out 'of 651 cases at Manila, 435 were fatal.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 11977, 27 May 1902, Page 3
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109Australian Telegrams. Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 11977, 27 May 1902, Page 3
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