Unruly Natives
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Night Attack on N.G. Patrol
/V PATROL led by Assistant District x Officer A. Nurton was attacked at night by hostile natives on the Rai coast, 40 miles south of Madang, in New Guinea, on July 23.
One native constable was killed and four were wounded, one seriously.
Two loaded rifles were stolen.
The patrol was engaged in ordinary administration work, including the taking of a census, and the attack took place while the party was asleep.
District Officer McDonald, of Madang, is investigating.
Long notorious for their ferocity, the natives of the Rai coast were deprived of their lands by the pre-war German ad ministration as a punishment for an abortive plot to attack Madang and massacre the German inhabitants.
Some years after the capture of New Guinea by the Australian forces, their lands were restored by the Administra tion of the Mandated Territory in conse quence of their having come readily under control.