HUNTED LIKE WILD BEASTS

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13330, 20 March 1911, Page 5

HUNTED LIKE WILD BEASTS

PONAPE REBELS. GERMAN PUNITIVE METHODS. Frees Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright. Received March 20, 9.9 a.m. SYDNEY, March 20. A well-known Sydney merchant, who has arrived from Ponapc, states that the late rebellion there was quickly crushed. A German punitive expedition, numbering 800, attacked the rebels’ position in the mountains, which was stormed. Many rebels were killed, 60 surrendered, and the rest were hunted like wild beasts till only 16 of tho principal murderers were left. Finally they surrendered. The Vwo leaders, who were shot first, addressed the natives, and declared that they were fools to revolt against the Germans, who treated them w'ell. They advised their friends to obey the law. Tho other 14 were afterwards shot, facing death laughing and joking. Several hundred natives were deported to the Western Carolines.