Chimbu Valley
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N.G. Patrols are Gradually Bringing Inland People Under Control
From Our Own Correspondent.
WAU, August 11.
A great deal of patrol work has been carried out in recent months in the Chimbu Valley, where two missionaries were murdered last December, and also across the Bismarck Ranges and into the Ramu watershed where the natives are more or less in contact with the Chimbu people.
The Chimbu Valley is still over-run by fierce fighting tribes constantly at war with one another. Inter-tribal fights occur at times within easy reach of the Chimbu-Waghi Police Post, but as patrols push forward with steady persistence from the base camps and posts, the natives are gradually coming under control.
Some of the primitive people give willing assistance to the maintenance of station gardens and transport. There appears to be little or no animosity shown to the missionaries established in the district, and the natives are rapidly acquiring “pidgin” English.
Communications still depend on aero plane transport, but a safe land route.is being established from the Benna Benna post, which has been re-opened. Work is now in progress to make a safe route between the Chimbu and Ramu posts, via Finintegu and Benna Benna. The Ramu post is on the route to Madang,