In Kukukuku Country
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New Guinea Patrol
Attacked
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A MESSAGE was received at Canberra this month, that a New Guinea police patrol, under Patrol Officer N. Penglase, has been attacked near the border of New Guinea and Papua.
After a sharp fight, in which eight of the attackers were killed, the raiders withdrew to the jungle, leaving their dead behind. The Government party suffered no casualties.
The Prime Minister’s Department had been previously informed that the Administration intended to despatch a patrol into the wild country to arrest the murderers of Hellmuth Baum, and it was probably this patrol which encountered the hostile natives. ... ===