RISING AT PAPUA.
NATIVE VILLAGER RAIDED. ,' MURDER AND PILLAGE. PROSPECTOR'S FIGHT FOR LIFEBy Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright .. . ..'. Sydney; December 17. The mission steamer brings news of a native massacre at Abau; Papua. A gang headed by' a notorious chief raided several villages and murdered the nativeswholesale.;./, ;■-. ■"-' ."''." ' They-then-attacked the camp cf a prospector ; named 'Arnold, who, after -a.- desperate fight, drovo off the attackers, killing one and wounding three. ... .' Parties of native police attempted to surround tho raiders,,and killed one and Wounded two. The'police escaped. A punitive party has been dispatched.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1626, 18 December 1912, Page 7
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88RISING AT PAPUA. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1626, 18 December 1912, Page 7
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