AUSTRALIAN MURDERED IN NEW GUINEA
CANBERRA, March 2. Edward Coljjn McDonald, an assistant district officer in New Guinea, news of whose death was cabled yesterday, was murdered on Wednesday by a native constable in the Sepik district of New Guinea. McDonald was shot while asleep and the constable, who afterwards attempted to commit suicide, is suffering from severe concussion.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21413, 4 March 1935, Page 5
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59AUSTRALIAN MURDERED IN NEW GUINEA Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21413, 4 March 1935, Page 5
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