PONAPE REBELLION
MANY NATIVES KILLED.
HOW THEY FACED DEATH
(Received March 20, 10 a.m.)
BRISBANE,.-March 20,
A well-known Sydney merchant, who has arrived here from Ponape, in the Carolines, states that the late rebellion was quickly criished. The German punitive expedition, numbering 800, attacked the rebels' position in the mountains, and stormed it.
Many natives were killed, and sixty surrendered. The rest were hunted like wild beasts until only sixteen of the principal murderers - were left. Finally they surrendered. The'two leadsrs. who wer* shot first. addressed the natives. They declared they had been fools to revolt against the Germans, .who had treated them well; and advised their friends.to ob?y the law.
The other fourteen were afterwards shot. They faced death laughing and joking. * ' Sever-alli""drpd natives have bee-i deported ifr the, Western Carolines. .
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10193, 21 March 1911, Page 5
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132PONAPE REBELLION Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10193, 21 March 1911, Page 5
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