Murder of Gough
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Arrests Made in N. Guinea
TWO natives of the Sepik area, New A Guinea, have been arrested by a patrol led by District Officer Townsend, and charged with the murder of C. A.
Gough, a native recruiter. Several others have been apprehended as witnesses.
During his investigations into the murder of Gough at Leihinga, a village in the Sepik district, Mr. Townsend ascertained that the natives of three villages were involved in the attack.
His patrol, he reported, established con tact with 3000 new natives, who are now ready to come under Government in fluence, and with this object in view two officers belonging to the patrol will re main in Leihinga for approximately three months.
Leihinga, presumably, is near the Sepik River, south-west of Wewak.