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Revenge
Five Murders In Papua
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, Nov. 20.
Regarding the murder of five native women in the village of Euale, Eastern Division, in August last, the Assistant Resident Magistrate at Abau has made arrests and the accused have been brought to the Government Station at Abau.
Prom inquiries made, the A.R.M. found that five Dorowaida men, re cently paid off from Otamata planta tion, had made weekend visits to Euale village nearby, and had endeavoured to marry girls of the village, who would have nothing whatever to do with them. It appears that the girls laughed and jeered at these men, who became furious and threatened them. They however, ceased visiting the village.
Acting on this information, the A.R.M. made a patrol into the hills, and, on the evidence of one named Wahu of Oi Oi village, who knew about the murders, he arrested four men, together with others, who were mixed up in the affair and who had accompanied the supposed murderers to the garden where the women were working.