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Papuans Attack Plantation Assistant

From Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, August 2.

A SERIOUS and premeditated attack upon a plantation assistant, Mr. L.

Cay, was made by 10 Papuans employed on Itikinumu Plantation, Sogeri district, on July 21. The natives set upon Mr. Cay with heavy sticks used for carrying rub ber buckets.

Previous to the attack the natives (Northern-Eastern men) cut the tele phone wires connecting the assistant’s house with the plantation’s main build ings. Had not Mr. Cay taken safety be tween two tanks, where he succeeded in evading some of the blows until help was secured, he might have been killed. As it was his injuries were severe.

The 10 attackers have been remanded for sentence, and will appear before the Central Court on August 5.