ATTACKED BY NATIVES
GOVERNMENT PATROL IN NEW GUINEA ETCET RAIDJ3RS KILLSD C LNBERRA, Wed. • An attack on a Government patrol by natives in New Guinea has been reported to the Prime Mirister's Department by the Acting-Administra-tor . The patrol was establishing a base camp near the border of New Guinea and Papua, where Mr. Hellmuth Bai-m and seven of his native serypnts were murdered by natives last 'May. ■ Eight of the attacking natives were killed before the raiders withdrew. No casualties in the administration party are reported. ,
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 94, 11 December 1931, Page 6
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