Patrol Officer Wounded
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In New Guinea
Patrol-Officer T. A. Hough Was
brought to Salamaua Hospital, New Guinea, by the Lutheran Mission plane, on December 11, with an arrow in his right lung.
The patrol-officer, with eight native police, went into the semi-controlled dis trict. near the Leron River (tributary of the Markham) in pursuit of a native mur derer. The party, on December 7, was suddenly attacked by a large number of natives. Hough, though severely wound ed by an arrow and by spears, continued to direct the defence, and the natives were beaten off, after four had been shot.
The native police, with great difficulty, conveyed him to a mission station, and the Lutheran plane, on December 11, pick ed him up at Kaiapit aerodrome, on the Upper Markham.
District Officer Taylor and A. D. O.
Roberts have gone out to the Leron River district with a strong police party.