ADMIRALTY ISLANDS MASSACRE.
FOUR NATIVES BUTCHERED. GERMAN PUNITIVE EXPEDITION United Press Association —Copyright (Received March 26, 9.18 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 26 Advices by Island steamer contain news of a massacre of natives at Admiralty Islands. Four natives went from their own to an adjacent island to purchase food supplies, and while bartering, were surrounded by bush natives, who hacked them to pieces with tomahawks. The massacred natives carried rifles, and it is for the sake of these that they were butchered.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2150, 27 March 1908, Page 3
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81ADMIRALTY ISLANDS MASSACRE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2150, 27 March 1908, Page 3
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