BRUSH I PAPUA.
LAUNCH PASTY ATTACKED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received October 24, 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE. October 24. The Minister of External Affairs has received particulars of are affray on the Fly River, in Papua, between Sir Rupert Clarke's party and a hostile native tribe, in which two whites were injured by arrows and one of the attackers killed. It appears that the natives attacked the launch party after trading with them and treacherously inviting members ashore.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11215, 22 October 1914, Page 10
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