JAPANESE HANGINGS
DARWIN, Oct. 11. According to advices received from Batavia, sixteen natives were hanged for murders committed during a Communist rising in Java last year and twenty others are to be hanged in Sumatra. The Governor-General of Dutch East Indies reprieved a number of natives prevously condemned, but a popular outcry against this action pievented further reprieves. The executions have had a marked effect on the political situation, which is now quiet.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1927, Page 2
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73JAPANESE HANGINGS Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1927, Page 2
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