11 Killed at Kekesup
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Raid By Kieta Natives
LAST month a report reached Can berra that the village of Kekesup, in the Kieta District of Mandated Solomons, was raided by inland natives and in the fight which followed 11 of the Kekesup natives were killed.
The Acting Administrator of New Guinea (Chief Judge D. S. Wanliss). in his report to the Prime Minister’s Department, states that it is not considered wise at present to attempt to arrest any of the offenders, as the natives concerned are not under con trol. It is hoped gradually to extend Government influence to the troubled regions.
The fight arose through the death of a Kekesup villager, as a result of what his relatives elsewhere claimed was “poison," and as invariably hap pens in such circumstances, the rela tives proceeded to avenge the injury.
A police patrol has been despatched to Kekesup to investigate the trouble.