YULE ISLAND NATIVES
A DIG CANNIBAL FEAST. Bi Tclesrn nh—Press Association—Oonyrlglu (Rec. December 24, 11,35 p.m.) Sydney, December 24. The steamer Morinda brings news that the bush tribes at Yulo Island, Papua, invited a neighbouring tribe to a feast dance.' After the festivities tho guests, in tho early hours of Iho morning, when returning, to their homos, were attacked on a mountain sido with spears, axes and clubs, and taken unawares. Between twenty and thirty men wore killed. The attackers carricd off the bodies and held n big cannibal faasfc. _ . •. Tho Morinda landed a punitive partj\
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2653, 27 December 1915, Page 5
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96YULE ISLAND NATIVES Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2653, 27 December 1915, Page 5
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