KILLED BY BLACKS
N \TIYE. CARRIERS TORTURED IN NEW GUINEA
F ATE OF EIGHT PEOPLE STILL UNKNOWN
SYDNEY, Jan. 12. A wireless message from Bulolo states that ten carriers, m chaige of one police hoy, when I ' et^”“ ng from Salamoa were attacked bj natives from Rabaul village when m the vicinity of the village t « carriers who were ahead ot tne main body were attacked by the naSves. One hid in the long «.» «»« saw liis companions killed with tom al The Victims’ necks were then fastened with vines and their stomachs cut open, the intestines pulled out and thrown into Bulolo river. The survivor then escaped and reported a description of the murderers which coincides with twenty natives who escaped while hemg taken to Salamoa a few weeks ago, following on a previous murder. . fphe fate of the other seven calkers and the police boy is unknown. —U.P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10304, 13 January 1927, Page 5
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149KILLED BY BLACKS Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10304, 13 January 1927, Page 5
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