Killed—And Alive Again
p. 64 · Read in the full issue
IT was reported, in all the Australian papers on February 5, that Patrol Officer George Greathead had been in jured and Patrol Officer G. C. O’Donnell, had been killed when their party was attacked by natives on the Rai coast, in the Madang district of New Guinea, on February 3. The news apparently was brought from New Guinea to Townsville by the mail plane.
A couple of days later it was officially announced from Canberra that there was no truth in the story and, so far as Rabaul knew, both patrol officers were well and uninjured.