MASSACRE BY PAPUANS.
PUNITIVE MEASURES TAKEN. (Received 9.25 a.m.) Sydney, December 17. The mission steamer brings newt of a native massacre at A ban, ii Papua, A gang headed by a notori ous chief raided several villages, am murdered the natives wholesale, anc then attacked a camp of a prospector named Arnold, who after a desperate light drove off the attackers, killing one and wounding three".' Parties of native police attempted to surround the raiders, but they killed one and wounded two police ant escaped. A punitive party has been despatched .
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 95, 17 December 1912, Page 6
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91MASSACRE BY PAPUANS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 95, 17 December 1912, Page 6
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