GENERAL CABLES.
CANNIBALISM AT RffflXPO. Sydney, August 12An Island isteamer reports the murder, of two white traders on one of the outlying islands of New Britain "group. The ricttims were surrounded by a horde of savages and butchered, end the IbotEes cooked and eaten. The Natives concerned! is&wingtetfie'iJ hostile tendencies, a punitive expedition was dispatched and surprised a 'Wellarmed force of Natives at ißotoopo. A desperate encounter resulted in whiek 00 Natives were shot and others taken prisoner.
The expedition visited a second ivßlago and punished the murderers.—Auß.N.Z. Oa&le Assoc. f
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 August 1918, Page 4
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91GENERAL CABLES. Taranaki Daily News, 13 August 1918, Page 4
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