LONDON SCARE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1933, Page 3

LONDON SCARE

OVER AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. “COUNTRY PACES BLACK WAR.’ LONDON, September 11. The “Daily Herald” heads a Brisbane cablegram as follows: “Australia Faces a Black War! Police push to end fin a massacre! 'Missionaries will not be/there!” Ihe cable states; •An ' armed party is being raced to Groote Eyland.f If the Government s only desire was to defend the mission there, ft could easily a flying boat, followed by a destroyer, but this would force them officially to notice the Japanese fishers’ incursions into the aborigines!' reserves, and would land them in an international complica. tion.

Tlic cable goes on to suggest, tliat the Government is under the influence of North Australian -whites whose attitude is that “if shooting makes the aborigines disappear the more quickly, only the sentimental missionaries will regret it.” It’ adds tliat the declaration of- a Port Darwin policeman is That •‘the only good aborogihal if a dead aboriginal.” ’ !

PARTY TO PROTECT MISSION.

SYDNEY, September 11.

The , “Daily Herald’s” cable evidently refers tm the fact that a- party of three policemen and four blacktrackers will leave Darwirf on Wednesday for the Groote Eyland mission where Constable" Hall is stationed. They will take traiiied Alsatian (logs, and will maintain constant patrols till. March br April next, when i'll e wet season ends. ' ’

During thi.s period the natives, driven by the rams to-,the coast,; will- he on short rations, and,. knowing that there .will be supplies at the Groote Hyland Mission; they riiay, become troublesome.