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A NIGHT ATTACK POLICE PARTY WIPED OUT SOLOMON ISLANDERS RESIST TELE LAW [By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.] Received March 6. 9.45 p.m. SYDNEY, March 6. Tho steamer Mataram brings news of the massacre of several native police at Gaudalcanar Island, in the Solomon group. The trouble is said to have arisen through an official having ordered the arrest of a native who was observing custom by having two wives. When it was learned that the native concerned had taken two wives, the district officer at Guadalcanar sent a native constable to bring the offender to the coast. The native refused to submit, whereupon an armed force of seven native police was sent after him. Intimidated by the size of the force, the native consented to go quietly. The force decided to camp for the night in a village, and during the darkness natives of tho arrested man’s tribe attacked the camp with spears and axes. Six police were butchered and the seventh, though mortally wounded, managed to reach the coast. All news is being suppressed by the authorities.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19784, 7 March 1927, Page 7
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