TRAGEDY DETAILS
MURDER OF JAPS, (Per Press Association- — Copyright.) i • DARAVIN 1 , -October 6. Details of the massacre of five Japanese .by aboriginals, cabled on September 28tn.,, were brought to Darwin by Harold Gray who was in the vicinity aboard a lugger at the time of tl a conflict. Aboriginals from Goulburn. Island told him that the Japanese had just unloaded at Trepong, when Caledon Bay natives rushed the camp, and seized their guns, which were stacked pgainst trees/ The natives fired and killed! the Japanese and also used shovels and spears to deadly purpose. They afterwards looted the lugger and finally escaped in a Japanese dinghy. Gray buried the bodies of five Japanese and returned to Millimbingi
mission. About twenty aboriginals were concerned in the attack.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1932, Page 5
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127TRAGEDY DETAILS Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1932, Page 5
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