PLOT TO KILL
CABLE NEWS
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IN EASTEKN NEW GUINEA
NATIVES REYENGi
(Received Septemu-r ■">. 10.5-3 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 5.
The German steimer Col!em; lias arrived here. She reports that New Guinea native.;! recently plotted tho massacre of the whole of the white population. of Eriedrick Wilhelmshamen. The plot was in revenge for the punishment of several natives for murdering a white resident. The conspiracy leaked out. and the ringleaders wore arrested with the- assistance of the native police, who remained loyal. Tho rnnk and file then lost confidence, and abandoned the plot. The Coblenz conveyed sixteen of
the conspirators To Rabaul, where they were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment with hard labour.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10713, 6 September 1912, Page 5
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120PLOT TO KILL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10713, 6 September 1912, Page 5
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