MASSACRES IN PAPUA.
CAPTURE OF THE MURDERERS. 8f Cable—Pi«es Association—Copyright Sydney, October 20. Island news says that the Government punitive expedition has returned to Port Moresby from Central Papua with a number of native • prisoners charged with murder. The Muruitai villagers invited the Karuema tribesmen to a dance, and the visitors discovering that all but two of the Muruitai men were absent, killed these two, massacred the women and children, wiped out the village, feasted on the bodies of the victims, and departed with much loot. The expedition had much difficulty in capturing the murderers.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 103, 21 October 1911, Page 5
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95MASSACRES IN PAPUA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 103, 21 October 1911, Page 5
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