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MASSACRES AND RISINGSALARMIST REPORTS DEPRECATED. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian Press Association) ■ (Received August 20, JO.O a.rn.) SYDNEY, August 20. Sir Herbert Murray, LieutenantGovernor of Papua, lias Just .arrived here. He deprecates alarmist reports of massacres and tribal risings in New Guinea, and declares 'that residents regard those reports as a joke; nevertheless they do the country a lot of damage. One affray cost nine lives, whereas the report staled that 500 were dead, which was a pure fabrication- '
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17485, 20 August 1928, Page 7
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