TREACHEROUS ATTACKS
RABAUL OFFICER FELLED WITH AN AXE POLICE BOYS WOUNDED (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed 10.15 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. A Rabaul message states that two treacherous attacks by natives have just occurred. While the assistant-director-oflicer, Mr. Calcutt, was piloting the schooner Rabaul through the Palroalal Reefs, he was felled by an axe stroke on the head from behind. Mr. Calcutt’s assailant. Luluai, a village headman at Raulili. then inflicted shocking abdominal- wounds on a police boy. A second police boy also received a frightful wound. Luluai jumped overboard and escaped to the bush. The three men who were attacked are improving. A recruiting expedition which was not accompanied by a white man attempted to seize some natives at Mapungo. The latter resisted, and it is alleged that a recruit named Alimel killed a man with an axe. Alimel at the Central Court was later acquitted on a charge of murder, as he had acted in self-defence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 562, 15 January 1929, Page 9
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157TREACHEROUS ATTACKS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 562, 15 January 1929, Page 9
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