ARMS AND AMMUNITION IN NEW GUINEA
Received Thursday, 3,5 p.m. SYDNEY May 30. •111 types of UiFfced States fivearms : ud ammunition are lying in New C-uinea, it was stated n the centual Cuurt today when a ship's steward was tned £85 for illegal possession of fire- ;; : ms. The charge followed an incident in v.iiich a detective was shot hy an American seaman wTho had heen found m possession of a dismantled suh-li-.'Chine gun. A search of an American li'-ighter revealed a numher of iirearms. ( Tlie- steward said that the rifle had ij(-r'n rgiv'en him at Biak and another ifiund in the cahin had heen left there by an American soldier. Last night and this morning detecti- es raided Sydney subnrhan homes i'lal urrested three men for illegal ]""~sesion of iirearms.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 May 1946, Page 5
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