TRAGEDY IN NEW GUINE A.
GERMAN TRADERS MURDI3EED. By Association—Oosrriffht SvJney, January 4. ' - Details are to haj' l of the murder of I two brothers named .Weber, at Rooke . Island, i Gorman Now Guinea, two months ;i(8»■ ' Ernest Weber, formerly connected'with : the GOTman" Missionary Society, severed his connection with the society, and visited Germany. Ho, returned fi year ago with his wife and' child and brother,: ond established a trading station on the' is--land.A D/A '' ■ :•'■ ■ I. Oris morning, the islanders, who were ' , ltnod 1 up for work, attacked and bntoh- : ered the brothers and a Chinese overseer. Robbery was, the object of the natives, ■ who looted Weber's house of stores. • Mrs. .Weber was absent and eeoaped, :
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1640, 6 January 1913, Page 5
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116TRAGEDY IN NEW GUINE A. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1640, 6 January 1913, Page 5
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