NEW GUINEA.
AVENGING THE MASSACRES OF * MISSIONARIES. "**' WHOLESALE BLOODSHED. (Received Nov. 1, 11.7 p.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 1. News from New Guinea, states that betiveVn sixty and seventy natives were shot down and about a dozen bothers captured and executed in connectfon with the massacres of missionaries. The ringleader, Toman, who was amongst those shot down in ;the mountains, d.ed hard. He exchanged several shots with the constabulary before being mortally wounded. Fighting side by side with him was his aged mother, and after the light was over her body was found alongside Her son's.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 256, 2 November 1904, Page 3
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94NEW GUINEA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 256, 2 November 1904, Page 3
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