CANNIBALISM RIFE.
WESTRALIAN HORRORS, NATIVES EAT CHILDREN. (v Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. Australian and M.Z Cable Aasooiation. (•Received Mav 11, 10.3-5 a.T0.l PERTH, May 11. Mrs Bates, who has reurned from he loklea district where she has for years rorked among the aborigines, states ihat cannibalism is rife there. \t a recent, initiation ceremony two mtives were killed and eaten. In other nstances a. woman killed and ato her tewborn baby, and another woman, ate four babies. Hunger is not the it is cannibalistic instinct.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16423, 11 May 1921, Page 7
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