SOLOMON ISLANDS MASSACRE.
SCIENTISTS' BONES DISCOVERED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Rec. Ootpbor 21, 9.45 p.m.) Sydney, October 21. Dr. Deck, of the South Sea Evangelical Mission, in. a letter, gives an interesting account of the discovory, whije exploring the Island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, of the tones of the mcmborß of the Austrian soiontifio party under Baron von Jtforbeck, which, was muidered fourteen years ago. While climbing a mountain tho baron and his party wero surrounded by hordes of natives, by whom they were killed. Tho natdvos afterwards ate five members of the part}', including Baron von Norbcclc, and a midshipman named de Beaufort, The bones were found scattered about among overgrown vegetation. Ono skull found had a hole where it -had bead pierced by an axe, ,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 954, 22 October 1910, Page 5
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128SOLOMON ISLANDS MASSACRE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 954, 22 October 1910, Page 5
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