NEW GUINEA NATIVES
CARRIERS SAVAGELY MURDERED. GRUESOME DETAILS. (Pre«» Association—By Telegraph—Oop-right.) SYDNEY, January 12. A wireless message from Bulolo states that ten carriers in charge of one police hoy, while returning from Salaxnoa, were attacked by natives from Rabaul village. When in the vicinity of the village, four carriers, who were ahead of the main body, were attacked by natives. One hid in the long grass and saw his companions killed with tomahawks. The victims’ necks were then fastened with vines and their stomachs were cut open, the intestines pulled out and thrown in the Bulolo River. The survivor then escaped and reported the description of the murderers, which coincides with the twenty natives who escaped while being taken to Salamoa a few weeks ago, following on the previous murder. The fate of the other seven carriers and the police boy is unknown.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19996, 13 January 1927, Page 10
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