Javanese Burglars
pp. 39-40 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea. Nov. 24.
TWO Javanese labourers, suspected of numerous burglaries of busi ness premises in Noumea, were hunted down by the police. One was shot dead, and one captured.
Both men resisted savagely, and many shots were exchanged with the police. A native policeman was shot dead, and two other natives, assisting the police, were wounded.
The Javanese who was killed was carrying two revolvers, and a large bunch of keys.
- Mr. W. T. Clark, a missionary with the South Sea Evangelical Mission in the Solomon Islands, left Sydney for Auck land, by the “Mariposa” in December to spend three months’ furlough. Mr. Clark works among the Kiokoio natives on the east coast of Malaita.