BARBARIC MASSACRE.
SEVEN NATIVE POLICE KILLED. AFFRAY IN SOLOMON ISLANDS. (Received Sunday u.u p.m.) SYDNEY, March d. The steamer Mataram brings news of the massacre of several native police at Gandalcanar Island, inthe Solomon group. The trouble is said to have arisen through an official having ordered the arrest of a native who was observing custom by having two wives. When it was learned that the native concerned had takken two wives the district officer at Guadalcanal sent a native constable to bring the offender to the coast. The native refused to submit, whereupon an armed force of seven native police was sent after him. Intimidated by the size of the force the native consented to go quietly. The force decided to camp for the night in a village. During darkness the tribesmen of the arrestee’s tribe attacked the camp with spears and axes. Six police were butchered and the seventh, though' mortally wounded, managed to reach the coast. All news is being suppressed by the authorities. -(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 7 March 1927, Page 6
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168BARBARIC MASSACRE. Wairarapa Age, 7 March 1927, Page 6
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