ISLAND MASSACRE1

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1010, 28 December 1910, Page 5

ISLAND MASSACRE 1

. PUNISHING THE REBELS. Dy TcleeriDh-Press Associ»f.ion-Copyr!Elit. Sydney, December 27. , Fuller details of tho rebellion at Ponapo, in tho Caroline Group, and murder of four Europeans,, show thnt on receipt of the news, the Acting-Governor, Dr. Oswald, took all necessary steps to fit out a troop of native constabulary to proceed to Ponape to the relief of tho' scttlomont, ai«l the punishment of the murderers. -In tho afternoon, Dr.. Oswald left in the, Germania, taking two German officers and about 70 native constabulary. '. ■ , At Kocweing ho will take aboard forty or fifty more native constabulary. Tho German steamer Siar was chartered by the Government, and sent to Frederich Wilhelmshaven to bring further reinforcements of native police. The Siar sailed for Ponape with about' one hundred troops and provisions. is the intention of'Dr..Oswald, on arriving 'at Ponape, to proceed immediately with the punishment of the natives implicated in the massacre:- If he 'finds on arrival that the other white settlers have also been killed, he will goto the island of Yap and cable to Berlin and to the German squadron in Chinese waters for further Teinforcqments, as his forte would not be strong enough to. attack the natives successfully. ■ ' s The natives of Ponape arc believed to* have a very laTge number of guns, and if they should succeed in taking the. fort .would secure a further .hundred and fifty modern army rifles, with a large quantity of.ammunition, ', .. :. ■'•'