Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 20 February 1934Vol. IV, No. 7

15 Natives Arrested

p. 8 · Read in the full issue

Page 88

Papuan Officer’s Feat

From Our Own Correspondent.

Port Moresby, Feb. 4.

Patrol Officer J. Hides, who in 1931 crossed and recrossed New Guinea with only six police and 10 carriers, arrived at Port Moresby on Saturday evening with 15 natives accused of murder, whom he brought overland from Loloipa Val ley, near Kumimaipa Valley, which is 250 miles from Port Moresby.

Since December 1, with an escort of only eight native police, he has searched for and arrested the natives, believed to have been concerned in two murders and a massacre. Patrol Officer Hides arrested all the tribesmen without shooting a native, though a policeman was killed and Hides himself was nearly killed.

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