FIENDISH CRIME
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MASSACRE OF JAPANESE " BY AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS SjJDDEN ATTACK
-By Telegraph — Copyrlght.*.
Darwin, October 6. |Details of the massacre last nionth of five ' japanes'e )iy abbrigin'als were brought 'to" parwin hy' Mr. Harold Gray, who was in the vicinity, being aboard a lugger at the time of the conflict. Aboriginals from Goulburn Island told Gray thaf the. Japainese had just unloacled a cargo of trepang, wlien tbe Caledon Bay natives rushed the camp, and seized their guns whicli w'ei-'e stacked' against the. trees. The natives fired and killed a Japanese. They also used sjiovels and spears to de'adly purpose. * The natives afterwards looted the lugger and finally escaped in a Japanese dinghy. Mr. Gray buried 'the hodies of five Japanese, and returned to the Mullimbingi mission. About twenty aboriginals were concern'e'd'in the attack.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 347, 7 October 1932, Page 5
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