PUNITIVE EXPEDITION
IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 8j Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, October 15. The punitive expedition against the tribe implicated iu the murder of Laycock captured and put in gaol tlie chief, a number of relatives, and burned a village. The actual murderers escaped. [A 'well-known Sydney planter-trader named Laycock was murdered at the Island of Makira, in the Solomon Group. He was engaged in a recruiting tour, and was standing iu a dinghy, talking to a recruiter, when a native suddenly struck him on the neck with an axe; almost severing his head. The crime is inexplicable, as the Makira boys were quite well known to and liked Laycock. The murderer escaped to the bush.]
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2594, 16 October 1915, Page 5
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115PUNITIVE EXPEDITION Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2594, 16 October 1915, Page 5
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