N.G. Patrol Arrests Head

Hunters

THE official report from Mr. G. M.

Keogh, A.D.O., containing details of some recent murders in the Sepik River district, was received in Canberra dur ing June.

With his patrol Mr. Keogh had inves tigated a raid on Mogomotei villages where three women, one man, and two children had been killed and decapitated.

After investigations several tribesmen who admitted having killed the Mogo motei natives were arrested, together with others thought to have participated in the incursion. The chief of the raiders said that the raid had been carried out to protect his own tribe.

While interrogations were proceeding, some of the natives became hostile and one arrested native escaped. He was pur sued and wounded by a police boy, and died next day.

The patrol also went up the Korosomeri River and arrested a native who admitted that he had killed a woman and child of a rival tribe.