WIPED OUT BY THE BLACKS.
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION IN NORTH-WEST AUSTRALIA. GRIM REMAINS FOUND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copy right Perth, April 4. A police telegram from Broome indicates that the Roman Catholic Aborigines Mission at Drysdalo, in tho Northwest, lias been wiped out. It was established in 1908, and consisted of two fathers, six lay brethren, and some halfcastes. Tho master of a schooner taking supplies to the mission found tho house, but tliere were traces of several fires, and some human bones in them. Tlio Protector of Aboriginals doubts the story. He thinks the schooner visited the wrong place. However, lie admits that -tho natives in tho vicinity aro violently hostile.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2116, 6 April 1914, Page 5
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111WIPED OUT BY THE BLACKS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2116, 6 April 1914, Page 5
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