NATIVE UNREST.
OUTBREAK IN ADMIRALTY ISLANDS. SAILORS MASSACRED. United Press 1 Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. j Received April 19, 10 40 a.m. SYDNEY, April 19. News from German New Guinea reports unrest among the Admiralty Islanders. A Japanese named Kinnino. captain of a trading schooner, together with two native deck hand?, was massacred. The Islanders are credited with being cannibals, and with torturing their victims before killing them. The Admiralty Islands are in the Western Pacific, north-east of New Guinea. The group was discovered by the Dutch in 1661, and annexed by Germany in 1885.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3168, 20 April 1909, Page 5
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95NATIVE UNREST. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3168, 20 April 1909, Page 5
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