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MAORI lIAKA CAUSES ALARM. “WE ARE ATTACKED BY CANNIBALS I”
(Received Aug. 10, 12.20 a.in.) LONDON, Aug. 9
A Now Zealand officer describes the Maori Contingent at the Dardanelles welcoming a Pakeha general by dancing a haka. , • • The nerplexed Turks in their trenches a hundred yards away listened to the bloodhtirsty serenade and the newspaper “Tatrite” published a paragraph saying that for the first time in history, the straits had had to endure an attack by cannibals.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4004, 10 August 1915, Page 5
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80THE TURKS PERPLEXED. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4004, 10 August 1915, Page 5
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